ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 1.9 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Usermeta Update
CVE-2023-3957Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.9Update to 2.0 or newer
All remediation steps- 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
On this page8
Am I affected?
ACF Photo Gallery Field navz-photo-gallery
- Affected≤ 1.9
- Patched in2.0
Update to 2.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9. Version 2.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ACF Photo Gallery Field.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch ACF Photo Gallery Field to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.
The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an insufficient restriction on the 'apg_profile_update' function in versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above, to update the user metas arbitrarily. The meta value can only be a string.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in ACF Photo Gallery Field
All 4| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Attachment Metadata Modification ≤3.0Update to 3.1 | CVE-2025-12081 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization in apgf_update_donation ≤2.6Update to 2.7 | CVE-2024-23518 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.5 | CVE-2021-24909 |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Attachment Metadata Modification
≤3.0Update to 3.1
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization in apgf_update_donation
≤2.6Update to 2.7
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- CVSS / CWE
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