PT-2026-40456 · WordPress · Advanced Custom Fields: Extended

Kishan Vyas · Published 2026-05-12 · Updated 2026-05-13 · CVE-2025-15463

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Advanced Custom Fields: Extended versions prior to 0.9.2.4

Description The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. This occurs because the software fails to properly validate a value before it is processed by the do shortcode() function.

Recommendations Update to a version later than 0.9.2.3.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-15463

Affected Products

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15463 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-action-email.php#L111 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f8544784-1994-47e2-be39-568d0ab9ee00?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2054409659755167790 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2054340924289712629 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-front-render.php#L35 · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/53570 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/163309 · Telegram Post