{"id":"CVE-2026-84220","title":"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 shortcod…","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 shortcod…","severity":"medium","cvss":4.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","published":"2026-10-09","updated":"2026-10-09","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-09T13:22:19.793","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84220","references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e5cfd004-dd57-4d42-858c-fbb9b9e320f6/","label":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-09T09:31:01.010Z","slug":"CVE-2026-84220","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":26,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":26.4,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}