by WP Engine 4.5 (1,439 reviews)

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

Name: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
Rating: 4.5 (1439 reviews)
Author: WP Engine

ACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) ranks #28 among WordPress.org plugins with 2,000,000+ active installations, is #2 of 6,299 in the Media category, a 4.5/5 rating from 1,439 reviews, and was last updated Sep 10, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v6.8.10 Current Version v6.8.10

Updated 5 days ago Last Update on 10 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#2 of 6,299 in Media Top 1% by installs Downloads +217.5% this week Actively maintained

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Rank

#28

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Active Installs

2M+

-6.7%

KW Avg Position

1.8

0.2 better

Downloads

68.5M

+27,383 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

90%

Review 4.5 out of 5

4.5 (1,439 reviews)

Next Milestone 3M

Total Progress 0%

2M+ 3M+

Ranks to Climb

Growth Needed

8,000,000

Active Installs

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Reviews & Ratings

4.5

1,439 reviews

Overall 90%

1,211 (84%)

33 (2%)

18 (1%)

12 (1%)

165 (11%)

Support Threads Overview

Resolved

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Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

38 known vulnerabilities on record · 11 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

May 30, 2026

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.8.2

CVE-2026-8382 · Fixed in v6.8.2
May 27, 2026

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.8.2

Fixed in v6.8.2
Apr 14, 2026

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.7.1

CVE-2026-4812 · Fixed in v6.7.1
Aug 8, 2025

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.4.3

CVE-2025-54940 · Fixed in v6.4.3
Aug 5, 2025

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 3.5.2

CVE-2012-10025 · Fixed in v3.5.2
Aug 5, 2025

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 3.5.2

Fixed in v3.5.2
Oct 16, 2024

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.3.9

Fixed in v6.3.9
Oct 15, 2024

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.3.9

Fixed in v6.3.9
Oct 15, 2024

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.3.9

CVE-2024-49593 · Fixed in v6.3.9
Oct 7, 2024

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) [advanced-custom-fields] < 6.3.8

CVE-2024-9529 · Fixed in v6.3.8

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Plugin Details

Version: 6.8.10
Last Updated: Sep 10, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: WP Engine

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 1,439
Support Threads: 6
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress developers and site builders who need custom fields and content structures beyond the default post editor. It solves the problem of adding, managing, and displaying custom field data, post types, and taxonomies without writing extra code.

Custom field builder
Fields on posts, pages, users
Fields on taxonomy terms, media, comments
Custom options pages
Theme template display functions
Custom post type registration
Custom taxonomy registration
Over 30 field types

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

Support Forums. Our ACF Community Forums provide a great resource for searching and finding previously answered and asked support questions. You may create a new thread on these forums, however, it is not guaranteed that you will receive an answer from our support team. This is more of an area for ACF developers to talk to one another, post ideas, plugins and provide basic help. View the Support Forum

Our plugin's non-minified JS and CSS files are available on GitHub.

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