Critical Kirki flaw exploited to hijack WordPress admin accounts

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Metadaten

  • Original (extern): Link oeffnen
  • Veroeffentlicht: 2026-06-02 22:12 UTC
  • Importiert: 2026-06-04 13:27 UTC
  • CVSS: 9.8
  • Quelle-ID: bleeping_c
  • uid_hash: 293c386d7ac25c0ef51dffa000d60663c00e1c40638de033d62acca7902af49d

Inhalt

Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-8206) in the Kirki plugin for WordPress to take over any user account, including those belonging to administrators. [...]

Verknuepfte CVEs

CVE-ID Severity (Quelle) CVSS (Quelle) Severity (CVE.org) CVSS (CVE.org) EPSS EPSS-Pctl Veroeffentlicht (CVE.org)

CVE-2026-8206

CRITICAL

9.8

CRITICAL

9.8

2026-06-02

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