CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-102291
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-13
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.1 This is due to the plugin substituting a user's `display_name` into the composed page markup unfiltered and then running the whole result through `do_shortcode()` in `TheFrontend::replace_content()`. Because `display_name` is writable by any user on their own account through the core profile form, this makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to execute arbitrary shortcodes. Where the page is a users collection — an ordinary team or member-directory page — the shortcode runs in the request of every visitor, including unauthenticated ones. Requires a published page with a Kirki element whose dynamic content is bound to the `display_name` user field.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L308 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L334 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L408 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/TheFrontend.php#L144 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/HelperFunctions.php#L1117 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Manager/PluginShortcode.php#L40 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3718900%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.2&old=3697265%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.1 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bed93040-a843-417e-89b4-5ab3cba788aa?source=cve www.wordfence.com