Information disclosure in Kirki

CVE-2026-84222

The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.0 does not check whether the requester is allowed to read a post before rendering and returning its page content, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the content of pages that are not publicly available, such as private, draft, pending and trashed ones.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (26.8th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-84222: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Kirki

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-84222?
CVE-2026-84222 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kirki, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2026-84222?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.