Vulnerability · Published Nov 28, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan
CVE-2022-3823Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.9.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Medium 4.8
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 44% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner WordPress plugin before 2.9.1 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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner | 0 – before 2.9.1 |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e exploit, technical-description
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e/ exploit