Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator

Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator has 8 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2015 and 2023; all 8 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.3, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 2 high. 2021 was the busiest year with 3 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 5 of the records (63%). Other recurring categories include Missing Authorization.

Every one of the 8 issues recorded for Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

5 independent researchers contributed these findings, one record each. Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator is installed on roughly 100,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
6.3/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

8

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 8.8CVE-2022-0770

Translate WordPress with GTranslate <= 2.9.8 & Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator <= 6.0.13 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Disclosure

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Vulnerability Records

8 records
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Latestv6.0.20

Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator

edo888

Author

edo888

4.7(618)
94/100
Last Updated
2026-08-31 (12d ago)
Active Installs
100,000+
Downloads
3,460,253
Requires WP
2.9+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Created
2012-12-08 (14y ago)

Google Language Translator plugin is now a part of GTranslate family! GTranslate is a leading website translation services provider since 2008 and powers more than 500.000 multilingual websites worldwide. Please use Google Language Translator Support for your questions and support requests! We are multilingual! Please check our FAQ to get quick answers. Features Free Google automatic machine translation Option to hide “Suggest better translation” pop-up Option to hide Google top frame after translation Google Analytics integration Translate the site on the fly Translate posts and pages Translate categories and tags Translate menus and widgets Translate themes and plugins Right to left language support Floating language selector Language bar with flags in menu Translate WooCommerce shop Paid Features Multilingual SEO – Enable search engine indexing Neural machine translations with human level translation quality Increase traffic and AdSense revenue Search engine friendly (SEF) URLs Yoast SEO compatible WooCommerce compatible You can have sub-directory (example.com/es/) or sub-domain (es.example.com) URL structure Translate URLs aka slug translation is possible (example.com/about-us &rarr; example.es/sobre-nosotros) Add hreflang tags for translated alternatives You can manually correct translations In context translation interface (make corrections without losing the context) Translate meta data (meta keywords, meta description) Translating schema.org microdata for better search engine appearance Seamless updates (cloud service updated on our side – SaaS, you do not need to worry about backups on your side) Translate JSON objects (JSON format translation) Translate AMP pages (Accelerated Mobile Pages translation) Image localization – Translate media Translation Proxy (aka Translation Delivery Network) Centralized Translation Cache – We revise and improve translations over time Language Hosting (example.fr) User Dashboard with Analytics Live Chat Support

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