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CVE-2022-3811: EU Cookie Law <= 3.1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The EU Cookie Law for GDPR/CCPA WordPress plugin through 3.1.6 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 products

• EU Cookie Law for GDPR/CCPA: through 3.1.6

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/262924da-e269-4008-a24f-9f26a033b23e
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/262924da-e269-4008-a24f-9f26a033b23e

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