CVE-2025-12136

24.10.2025, 10:15

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.

SSRF

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	NIST	6.8 MEDIUM	NETWORK	LOW	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Wordfence	CNA	6.8 MEDIUM				CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA-ADP	ADP	---				---

Awaiting analysis

This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 7%

Common Weakness Enumeration

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.

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