FKIE_CVE-2026-12724

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-20 07:16 - Updated: 2026-07-20 20:39
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.0.12 does not sanitise or escape the email subject and body values supplied in a request before including them in the password-reset email it sends as HTML, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML into the message delivered to a registered user, which can be used for phishing.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6c2d4489-de82-472d-a5f7-dc01b305fdd0/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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