Vulnerability CVE-2023-3957
Published: 2023-07-27

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.

Type:

CWE-285

 (Improper Authorization)

 References:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/navz-photo-gallery/tags/1.9/includes/acf_photo_gallery_save.php#L42
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2943404/navz-photo-gallery#file0
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/689511e0-1355-4fcb-8a72-d819abc8e9a3?source=cve
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