---
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'
cwe:
  - CWE-74
published: '2026-10-09'
updated: '2026-10-09'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-09T15:17:17.267'
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
epss: 0.00146
epssPercentile: 0.03326
ingestedAt: '2026-10-09T09:31:01.010Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.