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Real Cookie Banner vulnerabilities
Real Cookie Banner has 4 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 3 Oct 2026.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 4
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- Latest version
- 5.3.8
- Last updated
- 30 Sep 2026
- Most recent
- 3 Oct 2026
Find it in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins. Severity is based on the CVSS score published with the CVE where one is available.
| Vulnerability | Severity | Affected | Fix | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2026-92977 | High 7.2 | Up to 5.3.5 | Fixed in a later version (latest 5.3.8) | 4 d ago |
| Server-side request forgery (SSRF) CVE-2025-12136 | Medium 6.8 | Up to 5.2.4 | Fixed in a later version (latest 5.3.8) | 24 Oct 2025 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2025-1485 | Medium 4.8 | Before 5.1.6 | Fixed in 5.1.6 | 2 Jun 2025 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2022-4507 | Medium 5.4 | Before 3.4.10 | Fixed in 3.4.10 | 16 Jan 2023 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2026-92977, 3 Oct 2026
- The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.5 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. Malicious script payloads placed in the title attribute of an anchor tag survive WordPress's comment kses filter at save time, as the payload is only promoted to executable HTML attributes when the plugin's page-wide regex strips the closing quote delimiter at render time; exploitability is therefore subject to the standard comment moderation workflow before the comment is publicly displayed. CVE record
- CVE-2025-12136, 24 Oct 2025
- 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. CVE record
- CVE-2025-1485, 2 Jun 2025
- 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). CVE record
- CVE-2022-4507, 16 Jan 2023
- The Real Cookie Banner WordPress plugin before 3.4.10 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins. CVE record
What to do if you run Real Cookie Banner
If you run Real Cookie Banner, open WordPress and check the installed version in Plugins. Compare it with the affected versions in the vulnerability record. If a fixed version is available, take a current backup and update to that version or the latest supported release.
If no fixed version exists, consider disabling and removing the plugin or replacing it with a maintained alternative. After dealing with the affected software, check administrator users, unexpected file changes, redirects, unfamiliar pages and security logs for signs that the site may already have been altered.
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