WordPress plugin
Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates <= 2.3.3 — Unauthenticated Denial of Service
CVE-2026-73997Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.3.3Update to 2.3.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:NIntegrity- None
A:LAvailability- Low
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates kadence-starter-templates
- Affected≤ 2.3.3
- Patched in2.3.4
Update to 2.3.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.3.3. Version 2.3.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 2.3.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Asim Alshaya.
The Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to compromise the availability of a site.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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- Medium6.6Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection
≤1.2.16Update to 1.2.17
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.