CVE-2025-12937 (GCVE-0-2025-12937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-18 08:27 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:09
VLAI
Title
ACF Flexible Layouts Manager <= 1.1.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Custom Field Update
Summary
The ACF Flexible Layouts Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'acf_flm_update_template_with_pasted_layout' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update custom field values on individual posts and pages.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
valentinpellegrin ACF Flexible Layouts Manager Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.1.6 (semver)
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Credits
Ahmad Salem
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