Translate WordPress and go Multilingual – Weglot <= 5.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited Transient Deletion
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.2
- Affected Version
<= 5.1- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-10008
At a glance
CVE-2025-10008 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Translate WordPress with Weglot WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by Nguyen Ngoc Quang Bach (maysbachs).
Vulnerability Overview
The Translate WordPress and go Multilingual – Weglot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'clean_options' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete limited transients that contain cached plugin options.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Translate WordPress with Weglot <= 5.1 carries this weakness at clean_options, and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Translate WordPress with Weglot the fix is 5.2: builds <= 5.1 are affected, anything from 5.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Translate WordPress with Weglot 5.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
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