TranslatePress <= 3.3.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Translation Memory Suggestion Panel
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2026-89412 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | Wordfence |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2026-09-22 07:16:29 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-09-22 19:04:55 UTC |
| Description | The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Translation Memory Suggestion Panel (v-html on suggestion.original) in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.5 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. Unauthenticated attackers can seed the translation dictionary's original column with executable HTML because the front-end rendering pipeline decodes entity-encoded payloads via html_entity_decode() before persistence, and the original column is deliberately exempt from kses filtering — meaning no save-time sanitizer neutralizes the stored payload before it is later rendered in an administrator's session. |
Risk And Classification
Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.2 HIGH from [email protected]
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 0.003040000 probability, percentile 0.233210000 (date 2026-09-22)
Problem Types: CWE-79 | CWE-79 CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
| Version | Source | Type | Score | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | [email protected] | Primary | 7.2 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| 3.1 | CNA | DECLARED | 7.2 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
CVSS v3.1 Breakdown
Attack Vector
NetworkAttack Complexity
LowPrivileges Required
NoneUser Interaction
NoneScope
ChangedConfidentiality
LowIntegrity
LowAvailability
NoneCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Vendor Declared Affected Products
| Source | Vendor | Product | Version | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | Cozmoslabs | TranslatePress Translate Multilingual Sites With AI Translation | affected 3.3.5 semver | Not specified |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.5/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3697206/translatepress-multilingual/trunk/assets/sr... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.5/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.3/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/717e8479-921b-4f18-8fbe-32e0d... | [email protected] | www.wordfence.com | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.5/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.3/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.5/assets/src/js/... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.5/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.3/assets/src/js/... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.3/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.3.3/includes/class... | [email protected] | plugins.trac.wordpress.org | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
Vendor Comments And Credit
Discovery Credit
CNA: Yu Liu (en)
Additional Advisory Data
| Source | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| CNA | 2026-09-11T17:22:25.000Z | Vendor Notified |
| CNA | 2026-09-21T17:38:25.000Z | Disclosed |
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.