Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent <= 5.2.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via scan-without-login Endpoint
Strategic Overview
<= 5.2.4CVE-2025-12136Vulnerability Overview
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.
Technical Analysis
REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.2.5, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)) The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.
External References
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