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Kirki Customizer Framework, CVE-2026-8206

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-8206

Published on
Jun 02, 2026
Research Description
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.
Affected versions
max 6.0.7.
Status
vulnerable