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CVE-2025-12136: Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent <= 5.2.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via scan-without-login Endpoint

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2025-10-24 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-918

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.

Affected products

• devowl Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent: through 5.2.4

References

• https://infosecstuff.com/SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner
• https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L210
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L223
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L48
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378727
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db03dce2dd?source=cve

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