Vulnerabilities and security researches fortranslate-this-google-translate-web-element-shortcode translate-this-google-translate-web-element-shortcode

Aug 16, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-8719
Home page URL: Security reports for Translate This gTranslate Shortcode
Application: Translate This gTranslate Shortcode
Date: Aug 16, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable