CVE-2022-3036

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2022-3036 · Published 19/09/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-3036 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting gettext override translations (gettext override translations project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.70%, higher than 53.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.0.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gettext override translations gettext_override_translations_project	`< 2.0.0`	`2.0.0`

Description

The Gettext override translations WordPress plugin before 2.0.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/0dbc85dd-736c-492e-9db8-acb7195771aa · Exploit

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