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WPML < 3.1.8 — Authorization Bypass

CVE-2015-2792Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <3.1.9Update to 3.1.9.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

WPML Multilingual CMS sitepress-multilingual-cms

  1. Affected< 3.1.9
  2. Patched in3.1.9.1

Update to 3.1.9.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.1.9. Version 3.1.9.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPML Multilingual CMS.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.1.9.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WPML Multilingual CMS to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jouko Pynnöne.

The WPML plugin before 3.1.9 for WordPress does not properly handle multiple actions in a request, which allows remote attackers to bypass nonce checks and perform arbitrary actions via a request containing an action POST parameter, an action GET parameter, and a valid nonce for the action GET parameter.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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High8.1Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass in Language-per-Domain SSO via 'wpml_sso_token_domain' Parameter
≤4.9.7Update to 5.0.0
CVE-2026-76877
Medium6.5 Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via ‘elementIds’
≤4.9.5Update to 4.9.6
CVE-2026-17509
Medium6.5Authenticated (Translator+) SQL Injection via 'sorting' Parameter
≤4.9.5Update to 4.9.6
CVE-2026-12248
Medium6.44.7.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via wpml_language_switcher Shortcode
3.6.0 – 4.7.3Update to 4.7.4
CVE-2025-3488
Critical9.9Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution via Twig Server-Side Template Injection
≤4.6.12Update to 4.6.13
CVE-2024-6386

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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