CVE-2026-19632 — CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL Severity | NVD Vulnerability Record

ANALYST: BIVASH KUMAR NAYAK (CHIEF SECURITY ARCHITECT) • PUBLISHED: Wednesday, 26 August 2026
CVE-2026-19632 — CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL Severity | NVD Vulnerability Record
■ Executive Risk Command Center
CVE ID
CVE-2026-19632
CVSS Score
9.8
CRITICAL
EPSS Score
0.8%
53th percentile
CISA KEV
Not Listed
Not present in the verified catalog snapshot; this does not prove absence of exploitation
Urgent exposure review? — YES — CVSS ≥ 9.0 (Critical)

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🔍 CVE-2026-19632  |  ⚠ CVSS 9.8  |  📅 August 26, 2026  |  📂 Vulnerabilities  |  🛡 CYBERDUDEBIVASH®
CVE VULNERABILITY ADVISORY · CRITICAL
CDB-CTI-2026-A6A83E46356E · Generated 2026-08-26T15:56:27.048590Z
Executive Summary

The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1 via the 'trp_get_translations_regular' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the raw administrator password-reset URL — including the plaintext reset key and login parameters stored in the translation dictionary table — enabling full administrator account takeover. This vulnerability is only exploitable when automatic string saving is enabled (the default setting) and the target administrator's profile locale is set to a published secondary language, as these conditions cause the password-reset URL to be persisted as a translatable string in the secondary-language dictionary table. CVSS Score: 9.8 CWE: CWE-640

Decision: Validate relevance and exposure using the cited source and internal evidence before treating this record as an incident, confirmed compromise, or customer-specific finding.

Threat Classification and Evidence Status
Intelligence family
CVE Vulnerability Advisory
Technical severity
CRITICAL
Exploitation
Not confirmed by available evidence; not in verified KEV snapshot
Patch/remediation
Availability not established in the source record — verify vendor guidance
Verified Facts
Source type: CVE Vulnerability Advisory
Source publication time: 2026-08-26T05:18:06.810000
CVE: CVE-2026-19632
CVSS base score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-640
EPSS: 0.787%; percentile 53.5%
KEV catalog check: Not present in the successfully retrieved catalog snapshot; this does not prove absence of exploitation.
Technical Analysis

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure. Assessment: Active exploitation is not confirmed by the available evidence. This vulnerability is exploitable over the network, requiring no privileges and no user interaction. Prioritization must combine technical severity, exposure, asset criticality, and compensating controls.

Exposure and Remediation Decisions
P0 — Inventory: Confirm the affected product and version against authoritative vendor/NVD data; prioritize internet-facing and business-critical assets.
P0 — Remediation: Availability not established in the source record — verify vendor guidance
P1 — Compensating controls: Restrict exposure, enforce least privilege, and apply vendor-supported mitigations when immediate remediation is not possible.
P1 — Retrospective review: Search only the telemetry relevant to the affected component and validated vulnerability class; absence of alerts does not prove absence of exploitation.
Source Evidence Extract
CVE ID: CVE-2026-19632
Description: The TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1 via the 'trp_get_translations_regular' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the raw administrator password-reset URL — including the plaintext reset key and login parameters stored in the translation dictionary table — enabling full administrator account takeover. This vulnerability is only exploitable when automatic string saving is enabled (the default setting) and the target administrator's profile locale is set to a published secondary language, as these conditions cause the password-reset URL to be persisted as a translatable string in the secondary-language dictionary table.
CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWEs: CWE-640

This extract is escaped and rendered from the ingested source record; generated analysis is not presented as a source fact.

Detection Engineering
DETECTION STATUS: WITHHELD_INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE

The source record does not contain enough product-specific telemetry or observables for a defensible rule.

Confirm affected assets and versions, then collect the product's application, authentication, process, and network telemetry.
Use vendor-provided exploit indicators or a validated reproduction before publishing threat-specific detection logic.
References
AI-Native Automated Intelligence — Evidence-Graph Verified. Public reference draft — not a certified customer deliverable. Customer-specific action requires exposure validation and accountable human approval.
Role-Based Decisions
Vulnerability Manager: Track against cve vulnerability advisory intake. Exploitation status: Not confirmed by available evidence; not in verified KEV snapshot. Patch status: Availability not established in the source record — verify vendor guidance. — Prioritization reflects this record's own exploitation/patch evidence, not a fixed severity template.
Limitations: Reflects only this record's own reported exploitation and patch status; does not confirm whether the affected component is deployed in any specific environment.
SOC Manager: Review the detection guidance below before enabling any blocking action on it. — Detection maturity for this record is stated explicitly, not assumed production-ready.
Limitations: Detection guidance is evidence-scoped to this record; does not confirm the described technique has been observed in any specific environment.
Source Reliability & Corroboration

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Source Reliability: B
Information Credibility: 3 (Possibly True)
Overall Analytical Confidence: MEDIUM

Reported by a single identified source; an independent second source has not been found (see the evidence ledger).

Threat Hunting — hunt-CDB-CTI-2026-A6A83E46356E-exposure

Hypothesis: If CVE-2026-19632 is deployed and reachable as described by CDB-CTI-2026-A6A83E46356E's evidence (CVE: CVE-2026-19632), telemetry consistent with the vulnerability class below may show attempted or successful exploitation.

Required telemetry: Confirm affected assets and versions, then collect the product's application, authentication, process, and network telemetry.
Required telemetry: Use vendor-provided exploit indicators or a validated reproduction before publishing threat-specific detection logic.
Pivot: Pivot on the affected component's inventoried version/build identifier, where available.
Pivot: Pivot on network paths and identities with reachability to the affected component.
Expected if true: Requests, processes, or events consistent with the vulnerability class described in this report's Technical Analysis, occurring after the CVE's public disclosure date and targeting the specific affected component.
Negative indicator: No matching telemetry for the affected component across the retrospective lookback window.
Negative indicator: The affected component is confirmed not deployed, or not reachable as this CVE describes.
False-positive risk: Legitimate administrative, diagnostic, or scanning activity against the same component can resemble exploitation attempts; corroborate with authentication context and known-good change records before escalating.

Success criteria: A specific, timestamped, corroborated telemetry match consistent with the vulnerability class, tied to the confirmed affected component.

Escalation criteria: Escalate to incident response only when a validated telemetry match is corroborated by at least one additional independent signal (e.g. an authentication anomaly or unexpected process lineage) -- a single matching log line alone is not sufficient grounds for escalation.

Confidence: MEDIUM — Maturity: PROPOSED (not independently confirmed by execution against real telemetry)

Limitations: Derived from the vulnerability class alone; does not confirm the affected component is actually deployed in the reader's environment, nor that matching telemetry represents genuine exploitation rather than benign activity.

Intelligence Gaps
Known Unknown: Whether an independent second source corroborates this record has not been assessed.
Would be resolved by: A second, independent source reporting the same underlying fact.
Indicators / Observables
CVE: CVE-2026-19632
Indicators are defanged for safe display (e.g. hxxp:// / [.]) -- refang before use in blocking or detection tooling.

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Provenance and Certification
Report IDCDB-CTI-2026-A6A83E46356E
Source systemnvd
Source published2026-08-26T05:18:06.810000
Source-record SHA-256a6a83e46356e08cd045ffcec78bdb250e271a47baee6bda836119fc5d1f5e4a5
Generated UTC2026-08-26T15:56:27.066618Z
Production ModeAI-Native Automated Intelligence — Evidence-Graph Verified
CertificationPublic Intelligence Certification: FLASH_READY (automated evidence-graph certification — see Provenance for the source basis)