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WordPress Plugin Review: Advanced Custom Fields Pro

We use a number of WordPress plugins on GeekWire. One of the most useful ones we’ve found is Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), which enables easy input and output of custom fields. We use custom fields ...
IT World Canada

WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin vulnerable to reflected XSS attack

Following the discovery of CVE-2023-30777, a security flaw characterized by reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), users of the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are advised to update to ...
GIGAZINE

WordPress forks popular WP Engine plugin 'Advanced Custom Fields' without permission, developer claims plugin was 'taken without consent'

On October 12, 2024 local time, Mullenweg announced that he would fork ACF into a new plugin called 'Secure Custom Fields.' Mullenweg cited the fact that ACF updates are now done directly from the WP ...
HotHardware

Alarming WordPress Plugin Security Flaw Leaves 2M Sites Vulnerable To Attack

A WordPress plugin with over 2 million active installations left its users open to an alarming security flaw. The popular Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by WP Engine allows WordPress admins to ...