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Jan 20 2026 ACF plugin bug gives hackers admin on 50,000 WordPress sites

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A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Tue 20 January 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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