The The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.2.3. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Advanced Custom Fields: Extended <= 0.9.2.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Problem type
Affected products
hwk-fr
<= 0.9.2.3 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f8544784-1994-47e2-be39-568d0ab9ee00?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-action-email.php#L111
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-front-render.php#L35
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-7qqg-rvf9-85ww
The The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7qqg-rvf9-85wwThe The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.2.3. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15463
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-action-email.php#L111
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-front-render.php#L35
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f8544784-1994-47e2-be39-568d0ab9ee00?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7qqg-rvf9-85ww
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-15463Click to expand
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