[ CVE-2026-97020 · Published 14 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in dougwollison PO/MO Editor
[ Description ]Official description
The PO/MO Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'podata' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The injected payload is loaded as a replacement .po/.mo translation file via the plugin's own load_textdomain_mofile filter, causing WordPress to serve the attacker-written translation in place of the original core strings.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.
[ References ]References
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pomo-editor/trunk/includes/class-pomoeditor-manager.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pomo-editor/trunk/includes/class-pomoeditor-manager.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pomo-editor/trunk/includes/class-pomoeditor-manager.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pomo-editor/trunk/includes/class-pomoeditor-manager.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pomo-editor/trunk/includes/class-pomoeditor-system.php
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a06e1a22-f660-401b-bfbf-0064a9220c26