CVE-2025-15463

FAUCET Score

The The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.2.3. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

First published: May 12, 2026Last modified: May 12, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
Hwk-Fr	Advanced Custom Fields: Extended	>= 0, <= 0.9.2.3CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.5

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.38%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

30.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-action-email.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/acf-extended/tags/0.9.2.2/includes/modules/form/module-form-front-render.php

wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f8544784-1994-47e2-be39-568d0ab9ee00