Vulnerability · Published Oct 9, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-10496Cookie Notice & Consent <= 1.6.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
High 7.2
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in Cookie Notice & Consent from christophrado. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Cookie Notice & Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the uuid parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| christophrado | Cookie Notice & Consent | 0 – through 1.6.5 |
Weakness: CWE-80 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/035097dd-8ebd-49b8-93ea-0f957594f130?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cookie-notice-consent/tags/1.6.5/includes/class-cnc-admin.php#L33
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cookie-notice-consent/tags/1.6.5/includes/class-cnc-logger.php#L141
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cookie-notice-consent/tags/1.6.5/includes/class-cnc-logger.php#L259
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3373718%40cookie-notice-consent%2Ftrunk&old=3345005%40cookie-notice-consent%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=