Translate WordPress — Google Language Translator <= 6.0.11 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-24594Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <6.0.12Update to 6.0.12 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.8
- CVSS
- 4.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator google-language-translator
- Affected< 6.0.12
- Patched in6.0.12
Update to 6.0.12 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 6.0.12. Version 6.0.12 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 6.0.12, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Asif Nawaz Minhas.
The Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator WordPress plugin before 6.0.12 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings before outputting it in various pages, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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