# CVE-2026-102291: Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer \<= 6.3.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via 'display\_name'

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-10 · Updated: 2026-10-11

## 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 arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.1 This is due to the plugin substituting a user's `display_name` into the composed page markup unfiltered and then running the whole result through `do_shortcode()` in `TheFrontend::replace_content()`. Because `display_name` is writable by any user on their own account through the core profile form, this makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to execute arbitrary shortcodes. Where the page is a users collection — an ordinary team or member-directory page — the shortcode runs in the request of every visitor, including unauthenticated ones. Requires a published page with a Kirki element whose dynamic content is bound to the `display_name` user field.

## 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/bed93040-a843-417e-89b4-5ab3cba788aa?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/TheFrontend.php#L144
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L408
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L308
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Frontend/Preview/Utils.php#L334
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/HelperFunctions.php#L1117
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kirki/tags/6.3.1/includes/Manager/PluginShortcode.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3718900%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.2&old=3697265%40kirki%2Ftags%2F6.3.1

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