CVE-2025-12136
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.39% probability · 33th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-918
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS 0.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://infosecstuff.com/SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L210
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L223
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L48
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378727
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db03dce2dd?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.