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WordPress Plugin: theme-translation-for-polylang: CVE-2022-4169: Missing Authorization

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 28, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Theme and plugin translation for Polylang is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 3.2.16 due to missing capability checks in the process_polylang_theme_translation_wp_loaded() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update plugin and theme translation settings and to import translation strings.

Solution

theme-translation-for-polylang-plugin-cve-2022-4169
Title
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