{"id":79176,"date":"2026-06-02T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8206-kirki-6-0-0-6-0-6-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation-via-handle_forgot_password\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:17:03","slug":"cve-2026-8206-kirki-6-0-0-6-0-6-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation-via-handle_forgot_password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8206-kirki-6-0-0-6-0-6-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation-via-handle_forgot_password\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8206 &#8211; Kirki 6.0.0 &#8211; 6.0.6 &#8211; Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via &#8216;handle_forgot_password&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8206<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 2, 2026, 4:17 a.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The Kirki \u2013 Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder &amp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 9.8 | CRITICAL<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8206 Published : June 2, 2026, 4:17 a.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago Description :The Kirki \u2013 Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder &amp; 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}