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CVE-2025-2205: GDPR Cookie Compliance <= 4.15.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: yes
• Published: 2025-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The GDPR Cookie Compliance – Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent, Cookie Notice – CCPA, DSGVO, RGPD plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 4.15.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• GDPR Cookie Compliance: before 4.15.7 — fixed in 4.15.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GDPR Cookie Compliance 4.15.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-1622/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a903d61-2792-4fe0-a26b-f400f4a3124b/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/37da32e4-48a1-4830-a47c-c454d60c9811?source=cve

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