CVE-2026-84220: Kirki content injection vulnerability
medium 4.8 published 2026-10-09
- Affected versions
- older than 6.3.2
- Fixed in
- 6.3.2
- Latest version
- 6.4.1
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.8
- Active installs
- 400,000+
- Type
- Content injection
What an attacker needs
- Access: None. No account or login is needed.
CVSS vector (score by WPScan): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What to do now
- Update Kirki to 6.3.2 or newer (the latest is 6.4.1): Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Kirki issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get kirki --field=version. - If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.
The advisory
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.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-84220 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
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Where this data comes from
- CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/kirki (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-01.
- The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.