Vulnerability · Published Oct 24, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-12136Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent <= 5.2.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via scan-without-login Endpoint
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity server-side request forgery in Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent from devowl. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4. This is due to insufficient validation on the user-supplied URL in the '/scanner/scan-without-login' REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services via the `url` parameter.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| devowl | Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent | 0 – through 5.2.4 |
Weakness: CWE-918 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db03dce2dd?source=cve
- https://infosecstuff.com/SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L48
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L210
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L223
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378727