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CVE-2024-4869: WP Cookie Consent ( for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy ) <= 3.2.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Client-IP header

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Cookie Consent ( for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy ) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘Client-IP’ header in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• wplegalpages Cookie Banner for GDPR / CCPA – WPLP Cookie Consent: before 3.3.0 — fixed in 3.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wplegalpages Cookie Banner for GDPR / CCPA – WPLP Cookie Consent 3.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gdpr-cookie-consent/tags/3.2.0/public/class-gdpr-cookie-consent-public.php#L793
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gdpr-cookie-consent/tags/3.2.0/public/modules/consent-logs/class-wpl-cookie-consent-consent-logs.php#L570
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/507b2e65-987b-4d4a-8a99-5366048d925e?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gdpr-cookie-consent/tags/3.2.0/public/class-gdpr-cookie-consent-public.php#L793
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gdpr-cookie-consent/tags/3.2.0/public/modules/consent-logs/class-wpl-cookie-consent-consent-logs.php#L570
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/507b2e65-987b-4d4a-8a99-5366048d925e?source=cve

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