WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Kirki < 6.3.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comments Collection
Description
The plugin 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.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
INJECTION
OWASP top 10
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Submitter
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-09 (about 10 hours ago)
Added
2026-10-09 (about 2 hours ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-09 (about 2 hours ago)