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 ...

An advisory was published about a vulnerability in the popular Advanced Custom Fields: Extended WordPress plugin that is rated 9.8, affecting up to 100,000 installations. The flaw enables ...

Organizations using WordPress plug-in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) are in the middle of an ugly and very public dispute between WP Engine (WPE), the maker of the plug-in, and Matt Mullenweg, the ...

Automattic cloned WP Engine’s paid ACF Premium plugin and is distributing it for free. Many in the WordPress community disapprove of this action, expressing concerns that it undermines the plugin and ...

Hackers are actively exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability in the WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin roughly 24 hours after a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit was made public. The vulnerability ...