CVE-2026-12472
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Kirki plugin for WordPress up to version 6.0.11 has an authorization bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker can send arbitrary HTML-injected emails, including phishing messages with a real password reset link, using the site's mail server and its SPF/DKIM reputation.
Risk Assessment
The risk involves phishing attacks against registered users, potentially leading to account takeover and further site compromise.
Recommendation
Immediately update the Kirki plugin to the latest available version that fixes this vulnerability.
Other vulnerabilities in Kirki
See all- CVE-2026-57680Medium
The Kirki plugin version 6.0.11 and earlier contains an unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) vulnerability. This allows an attacker to access protected resources or data without authentication.
- CVE-2026-13147Critical
The Kirki WordPress plugin before version 6.0.12 does not validate a user-supplied URL before requesting it server-side, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make the site issue HTTP requests to arbitrary hosts (Server-Side Request Forgery).
- CVE-2026-57726Critical
The Kirki plugin for WordPress contains a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in versions up to and including 6.0.12. The issue is due to improper neutralization of special elements used in SQL commands.
- CVE-2026-57724Critical
The Kirki WordPress plugin contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability allowing object injection. This affects versions up to and including 6.0.12.
- CVE-2026-102291Medium
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().
- CVE-2026-103065High
Improper validation of specified quantity in input in Kirki up to version 6.3.1. Allows accessing functionality not properly constrained by ACLs.
- CVE-2026-84225Low
The Kirki WordPress plugin before version 6.3.0 does not check that a user is allowed to act on a collaboration comment before changing its state, allowing users whom an administrator has granted content-level access to the page builder to modify comments left by other users, including on pages they cannot themselves open.
- CVE-2026-84221Medium
The Kirki WordPress plugin before version 6.3.0 does not escape a user-supplied identifier before using it in a SQL query, allowing users with editor-level access and above to append arbitrary SQL and read the contents of the database, including user credentials.
- CVE-2026-77754Medium
The Kirki WordPress plugin before version 6.0.14 does not perform a capability check on some endpoints of one of its public AJAX actions, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the email addresses of registered users and comment authors, as well as non-public page content and settings.
- CVE-2026-74992Medium
The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.2.3 does not properly validate files in archives uploaded by users with the Editor role and does not remove all unwanted files after extraction, allowing such users to upload arbitrary files to a web accessible directory, leading to Stored XSS and RCE on some server configurations.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.11. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send arbitrary HTML-injected emails — including phishing messages embedding a real, valid WordPress password-reset URL for the targeted user — to any registered user via the site's own mail server, abusing its SPF/DKIM reputation. The attacker-controlled emailSubject parameter is passed to wp_mail() with only sanitize_text_field() applied, while emailBody 'text' items are concatenated raw into the HTML email body with no escaping, and 'chip' items can include the genuine WordPress password-reset link for the targeted account.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

