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CVE-2025-1485: Real Cookie Banner < 5.1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 5.1.6, real-cookie-banner-pro WordPress plugin before 5.1.6 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
- WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent: before 5.1.6 — fixed in 5.1.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent 5.1.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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