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Secure Custom Fields <= 6.9.3 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2026-92403Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤6.9.3Update to 6.9.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.3% chance in 30 days18th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Secure Custom Fields secure-custom-fields

  1. Affected≤ 6.9.3
  2. Patched in6.9.4

Update to 6.9.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 6.9.3. Version 6.9.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Secure Custom Fields.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 6.9.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Secure Custom Fields to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Charles Vosburgh.

The Secure Custom Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 6.9.3. This is due to a missing capability check on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Secure Custom Fields

All 5
More vulnerabilities in Secure Custom Fields
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Exposure
≤6.9.7Update to 6.9.8
CVE-2026-97194
Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤6.9.7Update to 6.9.8
CVE-2026-97193
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.9.7Update to 6.9.8
CVE-2026-97195
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤6.9.7Update to 6.9.8
CVE-2026-97192

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. 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.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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