CVE-2022-4169 Information

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.

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories-continued/#CVE-2022-4169 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2814605%40theme-translation-for-polylang%2Ftrunk&old=2812254%40theme-translation-for-polylang%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=