{"id":"CVE-2026-84220","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-84220","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:39:55.197Z","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 shortcodes registered on…","description":"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.","published":"2026-10-09T09:17:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-09T15:17:17.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-74"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00141,"percentile":0.0343,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-09","score":0.00146,"percentile":0.03326}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.14%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-09T09:17:10.000Z","detail":{"score":"4.8","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T09:17:09.857Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 4.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e5cfd004-dd57-4d42-858c-fbb9b9e320f6/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84220","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}