CVE-2023-1196 Details
The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Free and Pro WordPress plugins 6.x before 6.1.0 and 5.x before 5.12.5 unserialize user controllable data, which could allow users with a role of Contributor and above to perform PHP Object Injection when a suitable gadget is present.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-1196
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
1.08 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (65th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2023-1196
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
8.8 High
Products affected by CVE-2023-1196
Advanced Custom Fields 5.10.1
Advanced Custom Fields 5.10.2
Advanced Custom Fields 5.11
Advanced Custom Fields 5.11.1
Advanced Custom Fields 5.11.3
DVE Score by Bitsight AI
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CVE-2023-1196 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
JP 26,327 28.03%
US 16,437 17.50%
RU 11,408 12.15%
DE 7,167 7.63%
FR 5,087 5.42%
GB 2,311 2.46%
PL 2,100 2.24%
CA 1,976 2.10%
NL 1,876 2.00%
UA 1,476 1.57%

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CVE-2023-1196 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 76,998 81.69%
Telecommunications 14,158 15.02%
Engineering 937 0.99%
Business Services 743 0.79%
Education 409 0.43%
Government/Politics 270 0.29%
Finance 128 0.14%
Nonprofit/NGO 119 0.13%
Media/Entertainment 90 0.10%
Transportation 65 0.07%

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