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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-18 08:27 – Updated: 2025-11-18 14:26
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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.
CWE
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
valentinpellegrin ACF Flexible Layouts Manager Affected: * , ≤ 1.1.6 (semver)
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Credits
Ahmad Salem
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