CVE-2026-8206 | The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customi… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-8206
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 2026-05-09 01:00 UTC
Published: 2026-06-02 03:28 UTC
Last updated: 2026-06-02 10:47 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-269
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Vendor / Product: themeum / Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
themeum	Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer	—	6.0.0 ≤ 6.0.6

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-269	cna	CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (8)