WordPress plugin
Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on <= 1.4.12 — Improper Authorization
CVE-2023-22676Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.4.12No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on acf-image-crop-add-on
- Affected≤ 1.4.12
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.4.12. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.
The Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization in versions up to, and including, 1.4.12, via the 'acf_image_crop_perform_crop' AJAX action. This allows any authenticated user, including subscriber-level users, to crop and resize images in the media library.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.