CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-8719
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Translate This gTranslate Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘base_lang’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/translate-this-google-translate-web-element-shortcode/trunk/translate_this_plugin.php plugins.svn.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/translate-this-google-translate-web-element-shortcode/#developers wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a7f1a21c-2de0-4f41-b61e-7c4742900762?source=cve www.wordfence.com