Vulnerabilities and security researches forreal-cookie-banner real-cookie-banner

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-4507
Home page URL: Security reports for Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Application: Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Date: Jan 16, 2023
Research Description: The Real Cookie Banner WordPress plugin before 3.4.10 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.
Affected versions: max 3.4.10.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-0445
Home page URL: Security reports for Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Application: Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Date: Mar 07, 2022
Research Description: The WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 2.14.2 does not have CSRF checks in place when resetting its settings, allowing attackers to make a logged in admin reset them via a CSRF attack
Affected versions: max 2.18.2.
Status: vulnerable

Jun 04, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-1485
Home page URL: Security reports for Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Application: Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Date: Jun 02, 2025
Research Description: The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 5.1.6, real-cookie-banner-pro WordPress plugin before 5.1.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Affected versions: max 5.1.6.
Status: vulnerable

Nov 09, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-12136
Home page URL: Security reports for Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Application: Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Date: Oct 24, 2025
Research Description: The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4. This is due to insufficient validation on the user-supplied URL in the '/scanner/scan-without-login' REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services via the `url` parameter.
Affected versions: max 5.2.5.
Status: vulnerable