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CVE-2024-3072: ACF Front End Editor <= 2.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Content Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The ACF Front End Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the update_texts() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary post title, content, and ACF data.

Affected products

• horiondigital ACF Front End Editor: through 2.0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-front-end-editor/trunk/public/class-acf-front-end-editor-public.php#L225
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e7cbe45-5dd5-4b8f-8504-a52358156838?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-front-end-editor/trunk/public/class-acf-front-end-editor-public.php#L225
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e7cbe45-5dd5-4b8f-8504-a52358156838?source=cve

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