Vulnerability in TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation — CVE-2026-120537
HighSeverity
0.2%Estimated exploit probability
400,000+ sitesInstalls
3.3.9Fixed in
What to do now
Update TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation to 3.3.9 or later.
Affected versions
- Everything up to and including 3.3.8
Affected: TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation (plugin, translatepress-multilingual)
What the vulnerability is
The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment (storage); originals / language / original_language (exfiltration from endpoint)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Sources
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/class-translation-render.php#L1061
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/functions.php#L206
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/trp-ajax.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/trp-ajax.php#L257
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3781398/translatepress-multilingual/trunk/includes/trp-ajax.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e26d5534-dab1-4562-b770-aae2468505ac?source=cve