CVE-2025-12136 json
Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent <= 5.2.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via scan-without-login Endpoint
published last yr. modified last mo. also EUVD-2025-35827
- cvss
- 6.8
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.4%
- EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Patch / fix
- devowl wordpress_real_cookie_banner 5.2.5
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- last yr.
Exploit prediction
0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
Affected products
- devowl Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db03dce2dd?source=cve
- infosecstuff.com /SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L48
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L210
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L223
- owasp.org /www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset/3378727
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-12136
- NVD CVE-2025-12136
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