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CVE-2026-17505: TranslatePress (WordPress plugin) · Cross-site Scripting

Affects TranslatePress (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · public detection template (Nuclei) · CVSS 6.1 Medium.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.1Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 58% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Aug 2026

  2. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  3. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  4. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 3 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
cozmoslabsTranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI TranslationAffected
  • <=3.2.5
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until an official fix is available, users should consider disabling or restricting the use of the affected 's' parameter or applying web application firewall rules to detect and block malicious payloads targeting this parameter.

Description

TranslatePress plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 3.2.5 is vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) via the 's' parameter. The vulnerability arises because the plugin replaces internal marker tokens with literal angle brackets after WordPress sanitization, allowing attackers to bypass normal HTML escaping. This enables unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary scripts that execute when a user clicks a crafted link.

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