WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Kirki < 6.1.0 - Editor+ Arbitrary File Write via Zip Slip

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Path Traversal (Zip Slip) via the extract_zip_file function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to write arbitrary files on the server, which can allow for remote code execution. The install_app, update_app, and get_kirki_template_from_zip code paths accept a user-supplied app src value to construct the download URL, and no sanitization is applied to prevent a crafted ZIP from being fetched and extracted with path-traversing entry names that escape the intended destination directory.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.1.0

References

Classification

Type
TRAVERSAL
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
cuokon, Wordfence PRISM
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-31 (about 24 days ago)
Added
2026-07-31 (about 23 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-31 (about 23 days ago)

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