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CVE-2026-8206

themeum Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer — Kirki 6.0.0 - 6.0.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'handle_forgot_password'

EPSS 1%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
43
CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 70.0.700 × 2014.0No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions 6.0.0 to 6.0.6. This is due to the plugin accepting an arbitrary email address when a username is used in the password reset request. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send a password reset link for any user registered on the site to their own email address.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer6.0.0 – 6.0.6–CNA

Scores by source

Wordfence (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refwordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3b5630bd-5bce-4226-959f-5e81ae69b799?source=cverefplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.4/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L330refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/trunk/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L330refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/trunk/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L48refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.4/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L48refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/trunk/ComponentLibrary/controller/ElementGenerator.php#L227refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.4/ComponentLibrary/controller/ElementGenerator.php#L227refplugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3530843/kirki