Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent <= 5.2.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via scan-without-login Endpoint

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-12136
CVSS Medium (6.8)
Publicly Published October 23, 2025
Last Updated October 24, 2025
Researcher SpiderSec
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug real-cookie-banner (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2.4
Patched Version
  • 5.2.5
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