Kirki 6.0.0 - 6.0.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'handle_forgot_password'
70Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Actcvss 9.8epss 1.3%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJun 2
1st PoCJun 2
VulnCheckJun 2
exploitation probability
1.3%top 33% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
10 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
public PoCs found — 10
githubgithub.com/Jenderal92/CVE-2026-8206★ 2githubgithub.com/amnsecurity/CVE-2026-8206-Kirki-WP★ 1githubgithub.com/rootdirective-sec/CVE-2026-8206-Lab★ 0githubgithub.com/izxci/CVE-2026-8206★ 0githubgithub.com/Dungsocool/CVE-2026-8206★ 0vulncheckvulncheck.com/xdb/64bbf73b450eunverifiedvulncheckvulncheck.com/xdb/67e278598e97unverifiedvulncheckvulncheck.com/xdb/4810f9c8b9ccunverifiedvulncheckvulncheck.com/xdb/9df4105c92b9unverifiedvulncheckvulncheck.com/xdb/63c1119316c6unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.4/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L330https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.4/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L48https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.4/ComponentLibrary/controller/ElementGenerator.php#L227https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/trunk/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L330https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/trunk/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L48https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/trunk/ComponentLibrary/controller/ElementGenerator.php#L227https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3530843/kirkihttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3b5630bd-5bce-4226-959f-5e81ae69b799?source=cve