{"id":"CVE-2021-24405","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24405","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T01:17:44.223Z","title":"The Easy Cookies Policy WordPress plugin through 1.6.2 is lacking any capability and CSRF check when saving its settings, allowing any authenticated users (such as subscriber) to change them.","description":"The Easy Cookies Policy WordPress plugin through 1.6.2 is lacking any capability and CSRF check when saving its settings, allowing any authenticated users (such as subscriber) to change them. If users can't register, this can be done through CSRF. Furthermore, the cookie banner setting is not sanitised or validated before being output in all pages of the frontend and the backend settings one, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.","published":"2021-07-06T11:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:39:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["izsoft/easy cookies policy"],"epss":{"score":0.10703,"percentile":0.95822,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":false,"firstPublished":"2022-03-30","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":50849,"kind":"exploit","title":"WordPress Plugin Easy Cookie Policy 1.6.2 - Broken Access Control to Stored XSS","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50849","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/50849.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/50849.txt","published":"2022-03-30","added":"2022-03-30","updated":"2022-03-30","author":"0xB9","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":false,"codes":["CVE-2021-24405"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.7%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166543/WordPress-Easy-Cookie-Policy-1.6.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9157d6d2-4bda-4fcd-8192-363a63a51ff5","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166543/WordPress-Easy-Cookie-Policy-1.6.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9157d6d2-4bda-4fcd-8192-363a63a51ff5","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24405","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}