vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: sitepress-multilingual-cms: CVE-2018-18069: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 8, 2018
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

process_forms in the WPML (aka sitepress-multilingual-cms) plugin through 3.6.3 for WordPress has XSS via any locale_file_name_ parameter (such as locale_file_name_en) in an unauthenticated theme-localization.php request to wp-admin/admin.php.

Solution

sitepress-multilingual-cms-plugin-cve-2018-18069
Title
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