WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

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

Description

The plugin 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.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.3.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-04 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-04 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-04 (about 1 day ago)

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