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KIRKI PLUGIN FLAW LETS HACKERS HIJACK WORDPRESS ADMIN

A critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the popular Kirki WordPress plugin is being actively exploited to compromise administrator accounts. The flaw (CVE-2026-8206) allows attackers to take over any user account on affected sites.

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Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-8206) in the Kirki plugin for WordPress t…