Stored Cross-Site Scripting in GDPR Cookie Compliance Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-2205

4.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Gdpr Cookie Compliance – Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent, Cookie Notice – Ccpa, Dsgvo, Rgpd
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 March 2025

What is CVE-2025-2205?

The GDPR Cookie Compliance plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping. Authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions can inject malicious web scripts on affected pages, impacting all users who access these pages. This vulnerability primarily affects multi-site installations and those with 'unfiltered_html' disabled.

Affected Version(s)

GDPR Cookie Compliance – Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent, Cookie Notice – CCPA, DSGVO, RGPD * <= 4.15.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a903d61-2792-4fe0-a26b-...
https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-1622/

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmitrii Ignatyev
.