XSS in John-Dagelmore Gptranslate – Multilingual Ai Translation For WordPress: Automatically Translate Websites

CVE-2026-9109

The GPTranslate – Multilingual AI Translation for WordPress: Automatically Translate Websites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via REST API Translation Storage in all versions up to, and including, 2.31 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The deterministically derived API key (sha256 of the site URL) is printed in the HTML source of every page via the JavaScript variable gptApiKey, meaning any unauthenticated visitor can retrieve the key and submit malicious translation payloads to the /wp-json/gptranslate/v1/request endpoint without any additional precondition.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (41.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 41.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-9109: held from 0.003 to 0.005.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.002

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-9109?
CVE-2026-9109 is a high-severity vulnerability in John-Dagelmore Gptranslate – Multilingual Ai Translation For WordPress: Automatically Translate Websites, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2026-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2026-9109?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.