Disclosure summary
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.
Source-reported weakness categories
CWE-74
Source-specific records & product guidance
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NIST National Vulnerability Database · NVD-CVE-2026-84220
Open original source · Updated Oct 09, 2026
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Original records & references
PUBLISHED 2026-10-09T05:17:09-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-09T11:17:17-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-10T20:55:12-04:00