CVE-2026-18347
Description
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to read arbitrary user metadata and sensitive user record fields — including email address, assigned roles, registration date, and any user_meta values — belonging to any WordPress user including administrators, by supplying a target user ID with a user-type context to the frontend collection endpoint.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.9/includes/API/Frontend/Controllers/CollectionController.php#L97
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.9/includes/API/Frontend/Controllers/FrontendRESTController.php#L42
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.9/includes/API/Frontend/Controllers/FrontendRESTController.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.9/includes/Ajax/Users.php#L227
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.0.9/includes/HelperFunctions.php#L1098
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.1.1/includes/API/Frontend/Controllers/CollectionController.php#L97
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.1.1/includes/API/Frontend/Controllers/FrontendRESTController.php#L42
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.1.1/includes/API/Frontend/Controllers/FrontendRESTController.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.1.1/includes/Ajax/Users.php#L227
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.1.1/includes/HelperFunctions.php#L1098
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3629933%40kirki&new=3629933%40kirki
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa1e0bcd-f881-4b01-b802-7cb18a22a07f?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-862
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.