Description
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.
Published: 2026-09-06
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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Kirki 6.2.1 - 6.2.5 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via HTML Entity Decoding
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-06T06:00:04.619Z

Reserved: 2026-09-01T11:50:19.947Z

Link: CVE-2026-84219

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