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CVE-2022-23183
Missing authorization vulnerability in Advanced Custom Fields versions prior to 5.12.1 and Advanced Custom Fields Pro versions prior to…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Missing authorization vulnerability in Advanced Custom Fields versions prior to 5.12.1 and Advanced Custom Fields Pro versions prior to 5.12.1 allows a remote authenticated attacker to view the information on the database without the access permission.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Missing authorization
- CWE-862 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-862 and its CVEs
Affected products
Delicious Brains · Advanced Custom Fields
- affected Advanced Custom Fields versions prior to 5.12.1, and Advanced Custom Fields Pro versions prior to 5.12.1
References (3)
- https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN42543427/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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