Cross-site scripting in idocoh Sympl Repeater for ACF and Elementor
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Sympl Repeater for ACF and Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ACF repeater field values in all versions up to, and including, 2.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the symp_arfe_replace_content() function, which uses str_replace() to substitute raw ACF field values (retrieved via get_field()) directly into Elementor-rendered HTML without any escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-10570
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xr3q-2xmr-89w4
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/daa38c2c-9992-400b-acef-dcd37f9c7269?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-repeater-for-elementor/tags/2.3/sympl-repeater-for-acf-and-elementor.php#L179
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-repeater-for-elementor/tags/2.3/sympl-repeater-for-acf-and-elementor.php#L99
Sources
- CVE-2026-10570 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-10570 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xr3q-2xmr-89w4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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