What is CVE-2025-14533?

CVE-2025-14533 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hwk-fr Advanced Custom Fields: Extended, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-01-20.

How severe is CVE-2025-14533?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Hwk-fr Advanced Custom Fields: Extended

CVE-2025-14533

The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.2.1. This is due to the 'insert_user' function not restricting the roles with which a user can regist…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.002 (40.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hwk-fr Advanced Custom Fields: Extended — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14533?: CVE-2025-14533 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hwk-fr Advanced Custom Fields: Extended, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-01-20.
How severe is CVE-2025-14533?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.