# 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.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pvgp-75fv-2h99

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2026-75981 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-75981 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-75981 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-75981 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: cozmoslabs TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75981/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75981/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75981
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75981
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-75981

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75981/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.