Description
The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an insufficient restriction on the 'apg_profile_update' function in versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above, to update the user metas arbitrarily. The meta value can only be a string.
Published: 2023-07-27
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-44582 The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an insufficient restriction on the 'apg_profile_update' function in versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above, to update the user metas arbitrarily. The meta value can only be a string.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 1.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Usermeta Update
Weaknesses CWE-285

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Navz Acf Photo Gallery Field
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:58:28.382Z

Reserved: 2023-07-26T17:43:11.122Z

Link: CVE-2023-3957

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:08:50.778Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-27T07:15:10.253

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:11.457

Link: CVE-2023-3957

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses