CVE-2026-84220

Published: Oct 9, 2026Modified: Oct 9, 2026Deferred

4.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.2 / Impact: 2.5

Source: contact@wpscan.com (Secondary)

Description

The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.2 does not prevent shortcodes held in comments from being executed when it renders them, and displays comments regardless of their moderation status, allowing unauthenticated visitors to run shortcodes registered on the site and to read private custom fields of the page being viewed.

Related CWEs

CWE-74

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e5cfd004-dd57-4d42-858c-fbb9b9e320f6/

Source: contact@wpscan.com

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