CVE-2026-8096
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk33th percentile - higher than 33% of all known CVEs
Summary
Authorization bypass vulnerability in the Kirki plugin for WordPress up to version 6.0.6. Allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to view all Kirki frontend forms and read stored visitor submission data, including contact details and messages.
Risk Assessment
Attackers can access sensitive visitor data, compromising privacy and potentially leading to information leakage.
Recommendation
Update the Kirki plugin to the latest available version.
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-2026-84225Low
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.
- CVE-2026-66629High
Unauthenticated XSS vulnerability in Kirki versions up to 6.2.3. An attacker can inject malicious scripts that execute in the victim's browser.
- CVE-2026-18347Medium
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress up to version 6.1.1 is vulnerable to authorization bypass, allowing authenticated attackers with custom-level access to read arbitrary user metadata and sensitive user record fields, including email address, roles, registration date, and user_meta values, belonging to any user including administrators.
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, 6.0.6. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to view all Kirki frontend forms and read stored visitor form submission data, including contact details, messages, and any other visitor-provided information submitted through site forms.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

