Vulnerability · Published Jun 2, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2025-1485Real Cookie Banner < 5.1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 17% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 82.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent 0 – before 5.1.6
Unknown real-cookie-banner-pro 0 – before 5.1.6

References