CVE-2026-97189

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) WordPress plugin before 6.8.11 does not perform a read-permission check when it renders and formats the values of its relational fields, allowing users with post-editing access (Contributor and above) to disclose the titles and non-public statuses of other users' unpublished posts.

Overview

State: PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA): WPScan
CVSS severity: —
CVSS score: —
CVSS vector: —
Effective score: no score available from CNA, NVD, or AI yet
CWE(s): CWE-200 Information Exposure
Reserved: 2026-09-24
Published: 2026-11-07 06:00 UTC
Last updated: 2026-11-07 18:16 UTC
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/97xxx/CVE-2026-97189.json

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EUVD ID: EUVD-2026-118955

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Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Unknown	Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)	`0` (affected)	—

Vendor references (1)

References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/694a3ef1-a4b8-41fc-9630-134d549b4176/ exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Web references (0)

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Remediations (10)

Finding, Prioritizing, and Patching PHP2Shell Exposure | Arctic Wolf

web:arcticwolf.com

Arctic Wolf Labs: Finding, Prioritizing, and Patching PHP2Shell Exposure Learn about PHP2Shell ( CVE - 2026 -109618 and CVE - 2026 -109619), two critical PHP vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on web servers. Review affected versions, mitigation guidance, and detection recommendations.

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
October 2026 Critical Patch Update Released | security

web:blogs.oracle.com

For more information about the Critical Patch Update program, see the security vulnerability remediation practices page located on the Oracle Trust Center.

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
SECURITY ALERT: PHP Critical RCE Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and ...

web:success.trendmicro.com

UPDATE (Oct. 23): PHP released an advisory (23 October 2026 ) for CVE - 2026 -115560, a separate RCE vulnerability in session upload progress handling that shares the same mitigation as CVE - 2026 -109619. No further action is needed if you already applied the recommended session.upload_progress.enabled=0 setting when the earlier CVE was published on 21 October 2026 . The PHP team is handling CVE-2026 ...

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
SAP Security Patch Day - October 2026

web:support.sap.com

On 13 th of October 2026 , SAP security patch day saw the release of 16 new security notes and 4 GitHub security advisories. There are 2 updates to previously released security notes.

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
Addressing PHP2Shell CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: upgrade ...

web:techcommunity.microsoft.com

Learn more: Azure WAF custom rules for PHP2Shell mitigation . Request-side signals alone may not be sufficient to reliably identify certain exploitation attempts. Signals in the server response can provide additional evidence that malicious activity has occurred, enabling more targeted mitigation with higher confidence and lower false positives.

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
Broadcom patches vulnerabilities all over VMware

web:www.csoonline.com

The fourth issue, CVE - 2026 -41703, is rated high, rather than critical, and concerns multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESX, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion. A malicious actor with VM deployment ...

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
Critical PHP RCE Vulnerabilities: Patch Now (CVE-2026 ... - DigitalOcean

web:www.digitalocean.com

Two critical PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities ( CVE - 2026 -109618, CVE - 2026 -109619) were disclosed Oct 21, 2026 . See what's affected and how to patch .

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories

web:www.mozilla.org

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories Impact key Critical Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing. High Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions. Moderate Vulnerabilities that would ...

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2026

web:www.oracle.com

This Critical Patch Update contains 1448 new security patches across the product families listed below. Please note that a My Oracle Support (MOS) note summarizing the content of this Critical Patch Update and other Oracle Software Security Assurance activities is located at July 2026 Critical Patch Update: Executive Summary and Analysis.

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC
Oracle Critical Security Patch Update Advisory - September 2026

web:www.oracle.com

Prior Critical Patch Update and Critical Security Patch Update advisories should be reviewed for information regarding earlier published security patches. Refer to Critical Patch Updates, Critical Security Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins for information about Oracle Security advisories.

2026-11-08 11:09 UTC

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-97189.json.

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