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

Fixed in 6.3.2

References

Classification

Type
INJECTION
OWASP top 10

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Submitter
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Verified
Yes

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)

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