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CVE-2021-24610: TranslatePress < 2.0.9 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The TranslatePress WordPress plugin before 2.0.9 does not implement a proper sanitisation on the translated strings. The 'trp_sanitize_string' function only removes script tag with a regex, still allowing other HTML tags and attributes to execute javascript, which could lead to authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

Affected products

• Cozmoslabs TranslatePress: before 2.0.9 — fixed in 2.0.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cozmoslabs TranslatePress 2.0.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164306/WordPress-TranslatePress-2.0.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b87fcc2f-c2eb-4e23-9757-d1c590f26d3f
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164306/WordPress-TranslatePress-2.0.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b87fcc2f-c2eb-4e23-9757-d1c590f26d3f

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