WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress.org has taken over the popular Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin from WP Engine, citing “commercial upsells” and a “security problem”. Mullenweg says this is in response to a lawsuit filed against him and Automattic by WP Engine.
WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update, which he labels a fork of the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, is now called “Secure Custom Fields.” It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post.
This is a rare and unusual situation brought on by WP Engine’s legal attacks, we do not anticipate this happening for other plugins. WP Engine’s ACF team claimed on X that WordPress has never “unilaterally and forcibly” taken a plugin “from its creator without consent.” It later wrote that those who aren’t WP Engine, Flywheel, or ACF Pro customers will need to go to the ACF site and follow steps it published earlier to “perform a 1-time download of the genuine 6.3.
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