CVE-2026-119167

high

Description

The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' 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. Successful exploitation requires that at least one prior comment from the attacker's name and email pair has been approved under WordPress's default comment_previously_approved moderation setting, and that a secondary language is configured in TranslatePress.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5ca0e369-45a1-4601-bd9b-33a0bb5ca062?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3781398/translatepress-multilingual/trunk/includes/class-translation-render.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/class-translation-render.php#L558

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/class-translation-render.php#L1753

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/class-translation-render.php#L1685

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.8/includes/class-translation-render.php#L1656

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-118907

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-07

Updated: 2026-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00307