CVE-2012-10025: Advanced Custom Fields WordPress Plugin

WordPress Plugin Advanced Custom Fields <= 3.5.1 Remote File Inclusion

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.021 · 82nd percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 5 Aug 2025, 20:06 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Advanced Custom Fields	WordPress Plugin	affected 3.5.1 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2012-10025

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-98

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
10.0	Critical	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.021, the 82nd percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 Aug 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63326 third-party-advisory
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/advanced-custom-fields/advanced-custom-fields-351-remote-code-execution-via-remote-file-inclusion third-party-advisory
wpscan.com/vulnerability/d132d93b-509c-490d-8001-87147ed28c5e/ third-party-advisory
wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-plugin-advanced-custom-fields-remote-file-inclusion third-party-advisory
raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/wp_advanced_custom_fields_exec.rb exploit
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23856 exploit
web.archive.org/web/20121223025326/http://secunia.com:80/advisories/51037 technical-descriptionexploit

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.