CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Called exploited 22 days after disclosure.
Measured from the CVE publication date to the earliest of 1 KEV catalogue that list it.
The life of this vulnerability
- CVE published
- First KEV listing22d
- Last sightingsame day
Gaps are compressed to equal steps. The elapsed time is printed under each.
Which catalogues call it exploited
- CISA KEVUS federaldoes not list it
- EUVDENISA, European Uniondoes not list it
- VulnCheck KEVcommercial researchlisted Sep 10, 2026
- CIRCLaggregator, mirrors the abovedoes not list it
This rests on a single catalogue. No second catalogue corroborates the claim that it is being exploited. CIRCL is an aggregator and is not counted.
Public exploitation evidence
- reported exploitationpatchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/translatepress-mult
1 public report collected from VulnCheck and CIRCL, first on Sep 10, 2026. Each links to its original source. We have not verified them.
Description
The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 3.2.5. The special gettext markers '#!trpst#' and '#!trpen#' are unconditionally rewritten to '<' and '>' by translate_page() in includes/class-translation-render.php (lines 538-539). Because those markers are plain text with no HTML-special characters, an unauthenticated attacker can embed them in a comment; the markers survive wp_kses, and when the post is viewed in a secondary language the substitution turns the attacker's '#!trpst#img ... #!trpen#' into a real <img> tag. remove_tags_from_output() only strip