CVE-2026-75981 Cross-site scripting in TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation
Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts via translation markers in comments, leading to code execution in visitors' browsers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-75981?
CVE-2026-75981 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in cozmoslabs TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation, published on 19 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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 strips <script>/<style>, so an <img onerror=...> executes in the visitor's browser.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-75981?
How do I fix CVE-2026-75981?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-75981 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2026-75981 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-75981 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pvgp-75fv-2h99.