Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance <= 1.7.1 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-08-06 00:00

Asif Nawaz Minhas

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.7.2

Affected PluginFree Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for Privacy Compliance (GDPR, CCPA, DSGVO and others)

Affected Version< 1.7.2

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2021-24590

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Vulnerability Overview

The Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance WordPress plugin before 1.7.2 does not properly sanitize inputs to prevent injection of arbitrary HTML within the plugin's design customization options.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.7.2, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24590 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/67e0e59d-879c-434f-9ffb-1b97d8105bfa

CVSS Vector

5.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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