CVE-2026-94238: Unknown Loco Translate

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Loco Translate WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not restrict which file paths its translation file routes will read, allowing users granted the Loco Translate WordPress plugin before 2.8.9's translator capability to retrieve the contents of files of certain types from anywhere on the server, including outside the web root.

Affected products

• Unknown Loco Translate: before 2.8.9 (fixed in 2.8.9)

Published 2026-10-03. Last modified 2026-10-06.