# CVE-2026-77754: Kirki WordPress plugin unauthenticated information disclosure

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-77754-kirki-wordpress-plugin-unauthenticated-information-disclosure  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-08-26. Updated: 2026-09-25  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-77754 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.3 · Published 2026-08-26

Kirki is a popular WordPress plugin used to customize theme options and settings. The plugin fails to properly check user permissions on certain API endpoints, allowing anyone to retrieve sensitive information including registered user email addresses, comment author details, and non-public page settings without logging in. This exposes private data that should be restricted to administrators.

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-77754 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-77754 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-77754?** Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 26 August 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Kirki Kirki before 6.0.14.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-77754?** A patch was published on 2026-08-26: Version 6.0.14 released Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2026-77754 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-77754?** Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

The vulnerability is a missing capability check in Kirki's public AJAX action "kirki_get_apis". While the endpoint requires a wp_rest nonce for CSRF protection, the nonce is publicly available in the page footer for all visitors, making it trivial to obtain. Unauthenticated attackers can leverage this nonce to call endpoints like "get-users-of-collection" and "get-comments" to enumerate user email addresses and comment metadata including IP addresses and approval status. The vulnerability affects Kirki versions before 6.0.14 and is fixed in version 6.0.14 and later.

## Affected products

- Kirki Kirki before 6.0.14

## Timeline

- 2026-08-24: disclosed
- 2026-08-26: patched: Version 6.0.14 released

## References

- [https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aa4b9a6a-d9ff-4469-ba17-a5b19c2984c2/](https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aa4b9a6a-d9ff-4469-ba17-a5b19c2984c2/)