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CVE-2026-18512: TranslatePress <= 3.2.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Approved Comment Body in Translation Editor
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-25 · updated 2026-08-26
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Approved Comment Body Rendered in Translation Editor Strings Dropdown in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.6/assets/src/js/editor.vue#L909
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.6/assets/src/js/editor.vue#L914
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.6/assets/src/js/editor.vue#L923
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.6/assets/src/js/utils.js#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.6/includes/class-translation-render.php#L527
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3634273/translatepress-multilingual/trunk/assets/src/js/editor.vue
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftranslatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.6&new_path=%2Ftranslatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3634273%40translatepress-multilingual%2Ftags%2F3.3&old=3624567%40translatepress-multilingual%2Ftags%2F3.2.6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1b18095-d328-4658-81fc-7b15ca526c18?source=cve
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