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CVE-2024-5607: GDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner <= 2.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update and Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The GDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several functions named ajaxUpdateSettings() in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings, update page content, send arbitrary emails and inject malicious web scripts.

Affected products

• Ninja Team GDPR CCPA Compliance Support: before 2.7.1 — fixed in 2.7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ninja Team GDPR CCPA Compliance Support 2.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3097680%40ninja-gdpr-compliance&new=3097680%40ninja-gdpr-compliance&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8f870a6-26a5-4f98-9bd6-12736c561265?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3097680%40ninja-gdpr-compliance&new=3097680%40ninja-gdpr-compliance&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8f870a6-26a5-4f98-9bd6-12736c561265?source=cve

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