ACF plugin bug gives hackers admin on 50,000 WordPress sites

A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be ...

WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Extended Plugin Vulnerability

A vulnerability in an ACF addon plugin exposes up to 100,000 installations to a complete site takeover by unauthenticated ...

A popular WordPress plugin has a worrying flaw

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GeekWire

WordPress Plugin Review: Advanced Custom Fields Pro

We use a number of WordPress plugins on GeekWire. One of the most useful ones we’ve found is Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), which enables easy input and output of custom fields. We use custom fields ...
Searchenginejournal.com

ACF WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 2+ Million Sites

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) WordPress plugin with over 2 million installations announced the release of a security update, version 6.2.5 that patches a vulnerability, the severity of which is not ...
GIGAZINE

WordPress forks popular WP Engine plugin 'Advanced Custom Fields' without permission, developer claims plugin was 'taken without consent'

On October 12, 2024 local time, Mullenweg announced that he would fork ACF into a new plugin called 'Secure Custom Fields.' Mullenweg cited the fact that ACF updates are now done directly from the WP ...