Vulnerability in Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer — CVE-2026-17037
HighSeverity
—Estimated exploit probability
500,000+ sitesInstalls
6.2.1Fixed in
What to do now
Update Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer to 6.2.1 or later.
Affected versions
- Everything up to and including 6.2.0
Affected: Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer (plugin, kirki)
What the vulnerability is
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘comment’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.