WP Cookie Consent ( for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy ), CVE-2026-12955
- CVE, Research URL
- Published on
- Jul 10, 2026
- Research Description
- The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check and missing nonce verification on the gdpr_cookie_consent_ajax_save_schedule_scan() function (the wp_ajax_gcc_save_schedule_scan AJAX action) in versions up to, and including, 4.3.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's cookie scan schedule configuration stored in the gdpr_scan_schedule_data option, which is an administrative function intended to be limited to users with the manage_options capability.
- Affected versions
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max 4.3.7.
- Status
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vulnerable
| Previous vulnerability researches |
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| JSON API User (CVE-2026-9626) , Jul 04, 2026 |
| JSON API User (CVE-2024-6624) , Jul 12, 2024 |