The Translate Multilingual sites – TranslatePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 's' parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.2.5. This is due to the translate_page() function unconditionally replacing the plugin's internal #!trpst# and #!trpen# marker tokens with literal angle brackets across the entire HTML page output after WordPress has already sanitized and escaped user input — allowing the attacker to bypass WordPress's normal HTML escaping by using these tokens, which are not HTML special characters, in the search query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a specially crafted link.
CVE-2026-17505
Score 6.1 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-05. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
- CVSS v3
- 6.1
- EG Score
- 6.1MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 43EG Risk 43/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity61% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. - EPSS PROB
- 0.9%
- EPSS %ILE
- 56th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.
No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
August 5, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026
References (5)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.5/class-translate-press.php#L443
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.5/includes/class-search.php#L150
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/translatepress-multilingual/tags/3.2.5/includes/class-translation-render.php#L538
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3624567%40translatepress-multilingual%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Fclass-translation-render.php&old=3617108
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/81d28e90-252f-4b5f-a55b-8cb96292538e?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17505(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-10-04 06:05 UTCEG score recompute
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Publicly available exploits
(1 reference)Working exploit code is in the public domain. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- Nucleihttp/cves/2026/CVE-2026-17505.yamlFirst seen Jan 1, 2026
WordPress TranslatePress < 3.2.6 - Cross-Site Scripting
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