CVE-2026-12724 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.0.12 does not sanitise or escape the email subject and body values supplied in a request before including them in the password-reset email it sends as HTML, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML into the message delivered to a registered user, which can be used for phishing.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00101.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6c2d4489-de82-472d-a5f7-dc01b305fdd0/

History

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-345
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Kirki WordPress plugin before 6.0.12 does not sanitise or escape the email subject and body values supplied in a request before including them in the password-reset email it sends as HTML, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML into the message delivered to a registered user, which can be used for phishing.
Title		Kirki < 6.0.12 - Unauthenticated HTML Injection in Password Reset Email via kirki-forgot-password
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6c2d4489-de82-472d-a5f7-dc01b305fdd0/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-07-20T06:00:03.572Z

Updated: 2026-07-20T15:05:55.528Z

Reserved: 2026-06-19T13:26:32.263Z

Link: CVE-2026-12724

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-20T15:05:47.322Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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