Kirki 6.2.1 - 6.2.5 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via HTML Entity Decoding

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-84219
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerWPScan
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-06 07:16:43 UTC
Updated2026-09-06 07:16:43 UTC
DescriptionThe Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.0 does not hold back every spelling of the HTML entities it decodes when rendering, allowing unauthenticated users to store JavaScript in a comment which then runs in the session of anyone viewing a page that displays it, including an administrator, and on every page of the site when its header or footer is built to show comments.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Unknown Kirki affected 6.2.1 6.3.0 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
wpscan.com/vulnerability/e95bd1e3-6f61-423f-add6-519e1ca7bf66 [email protected] wpscan.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Jakub Herman (en)

CNA: WPScan (en)

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