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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-84221 (MEDIUM 6.8) — The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.0 does not escape a user-supplied identifier before using it in a SQL query, allowing users with editor-level access and above to append arbitrary SQL and read the contents of the database, including user credentials.

[NVD] CVE-2026-84221 (MEDIUM 6.8) — The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.0 does not escape a user-supplied identifier before using it in a SQL query, allowing users with editor-level access and above to append arbitrary SQL and read the contents of the database, including user credentials.

mednvdPublished 2026-09-05

CVE-2026-84221 CVSS: 6.8 MEDIUM Published: 2026-09-05T07:17:13.667

The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.3.0 does not escape a user-supplied identifier before using it in a SQL query, allowing users with editor-level access and above to append arbitrary SQL and read the contents of the database, including user credentials.

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84221