CVE-2026-12723: Unknown Kirki

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.0.12 does not perform any authorisation check on one of its REST routes, allowing unauthenticated users to overwrite the content of arbitrary existing comments and to create pre-approved comments under a spoofed identity, bypassing comment moderation.

Affected products

• Unknown Kirki: before 6.0.12 (fixed in 6.0.12)

Published 2026-07-20. Last modified 2026-07-20.