Medium
Kirki < 6.3.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comments Collection
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.
Announced Group revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2026-84220
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-84220
Kirki
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Unknown",
"product": "Kirki",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "6.3.2",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"collectionURL": "https://wordpress.org/plugins",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-84220
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
medium
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #16280 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date