# CVE-2026-102173: Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer \<= 6.3.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Registration Metadata

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- themeum Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer: through 6.3.1

## Description

The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via registration metadata in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.1 This is due to insufficient escaping in `ExceptionalElements::image_element()`, which concatenates a user-meta value straight into an `<img src="…">` attribute. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses a page rendering a Kirki users collection whose image element is bound to one of the nine registration meta fields. Requires public user registration to be enabled and a published page carrying a `kirki-register` element, which prints the required element nonce into the public markup.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on themeum Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/368001e9-3806-41d5-902e-0facf7fb31ff?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/ExceptionalElements.php#L1184
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/ExceptionalElements.php#L1079
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/HelperFunctions.php#L1151
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L361
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L389
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/CompLibFormHandler.php#L76
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/ComponentLibrary/controller/ElementGenerator.php#L259
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L308
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3718900%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.2&old=3697265%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3718900/kirki/trunk/includes/Frontend/Preview/ExceptionalElements.php

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