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.
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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:45:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | CWE-79 |
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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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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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-06T07:16:43.427
Modified: 2026-09-06T07:16:43.427
Link: CVE-2026-84219
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-06T07:30:03Z
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