CVE-2025-8719: Reubenthiessen Translate This Gtranslate Shortcode

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Translate This gTranslate Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘base_lang’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Reubenthiessen Translate This Gtranslate Shortcode: up to and including 1.0

Published 2025-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.