CVE-2026-102173
Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer <= 6.3.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Registration Metadata
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.2 High
- Published
- Oct 7, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 28, 2026
Description
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via registration metadata in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.1 This is due to insufficient escaping in `ExceptionalElements::image_element()`, which concatenates a user-meta value straight into an `<img src="…">` attribute. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses a page rendering a Kirki users collection whose image element is bound to one of the nine registration meta fields. Requires public user registration to be enabled and a published page carrying a `kirki-register` element, which prints the required element nonce into the public markup.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.2 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizerthemeum |
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References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/368001e9-3806-41d5-902e-0facf7fb31ff?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/ExceptionalElements.php#L1184
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/ExceptionalElements.php#L1079
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/HelperFunctions.php#L1151
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L361
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L389
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L76
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/ElementGenerator.php#L259
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L308
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3718900%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.2&old=3697265%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3718900/kirki/trunk/includes/Frontend/Preview/ExceptionalElements.php
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