WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2025-12136 Deferred

Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent: Server-side request forgery

Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent is affected by server-side request forgery. Exploitation requires at least administrator-level access. The vulnerable server can be induced to make attacker-selected network requests.

CVE / CNA score 6.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Plugin slug
real-cookie-banner
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Oct 24, 2025
Weakness
CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

This CVE was published Oct 24, 2025 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical 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.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources