CVE-2025-8719
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
16/08/2025
Last modified:
18/08/2025
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/translate-this-google-translate-web-element-shortcode/trunk/translate_this_plugin.php
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/translate-this-google-translate-web-element-shortcode/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a7f1a21c-2de0-4f41-b61e-7c4742900762?source=cve