CVE-2025-49285

WP Cookie Notice for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy Consent <= 3.8.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2025-06-05 00:00
domiee13

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.8.1
Affected Plugin
WPLP Cookie Consent – Cookie Banner & Consent Management for GDPR, CCPA & Google Consent Mode
Affected Version
<= 3.8.0
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2025-49285
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At a glance

CVE-2025-49285 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WPLP Cookie Consent WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.8.0. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.8.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2025, reported by domiee13.

Vulnerability Overview

The Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent, Consent Log, Cookie Scanner, Script Blocker (for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy) : WP Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in WPLP Cookie Consent <= 3.8.0 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For WPLP Cookie Consent the fix is 3.8.1: builds <= 3.8.0 are affected, anything from 3.8.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.8.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WPLP Cookie Consent: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WPLP Cookie Consent 3.8.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49285https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bcf7c4ad-7d8a-491c-b401-8b02af4a21c3https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49285

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