CVE-2024-1121
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Advanced Forms for ACF plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2024-1121) discovered in February 2024 that affects all versions up to and including 1.9.3.2. The vulnerability stems from a missing capability check on the export_json_file() function, which could allow unauthorized access to form data (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium). The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs no privileges (PR:N), requires no user interaction (UI:N), has unchanged scope (S:U), and can result in low confidentiality impact (C:L) with no impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N) (Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to export form settings from the WordPress installation. This could potentially expose sensitive configuration information and form structures to unauthorized users (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update their Advanced Forms for ACF plugin to a version newer than 1.9.3.2 (WordPress Patch).

Additional resources


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