CVE-2026-84219 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: WPScan
Reserved: 01.09.2026 Published: 06.09.2026 Updated: 06.09.2026

The 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.

Product Status

Vendor Unknown
Product Kirki
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6.2.1 to 6.3.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Jakub Herman finder
  • WPScan coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) CWE