Description

The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.2.1. This is due to the 'insert_user' function not restricting the roles with which a user can register. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site. Note: The vulnerability can only be exploited if 'role' is mapped to the custom field.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-01-20T09:25:00.542Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T17:25:47.419Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-14533 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Hwk-fr
  • Advanced Custom Fields
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-14533.

URL Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.1/includes/modules/form/module-form-action-user.php#L636 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/fields/field-user-roles.php#L437 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-action-user.php#L356 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d44f8af2-3525-4b00-afa8-a908250cc838?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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