CVE-2026-84220: Unknown Kirki

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.2 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.

Affected products

• Unknown Kirki: before 6.3.2 (fixed in 6.3.2)

Published 2026-10-09. Last modified 2026-10-09.