CVE-2023-0823: Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA < 2.4.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2023-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA WordPress plugin before 2.4.7 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA: before 2.4.7 — fixed in 2.4.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA 2.4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/83f23a9f-9ace-47d2-a5f3-a4915129b16c
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/83f23a9f-9ace-47d2-a5f3-a4915129b16c

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