Advanced Custom Fields Free Plugin on WordPress deserialization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Advanced Custom Fields Free Plugin and Advanced Custom Fields Pro Plugin on WordPress. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-1196. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Advanced Custom Fields Free Plugin and Advanced Custom Fields Pro Plugin on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Free and Pro WordPress plugins 6.x before 6.1.0 and 5.x before 5.12.5 unserialize user controllable data, which could allow users with a role of Contributor and above to perform PHP Object Injection when a suitable gadget is present.

The weakness was released 05/02/2023. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-1196 since 03/06/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

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Class: Deserialization
CWE: CWE-502 / CWE-20
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Remote: Yes

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03/06/2023 🔍
05/02/2023 +56 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-1196 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-1196
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-227861

Entryinfo

Created: 05/02/2023 13:51
Updated: 01/30/2025 16:38
Changes: 05/02/2023 13:51 (37), 05/24/2023 17:24 (11), 01/30/2025 16:38 (26)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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