Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA < 2.4.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Priority MEDIUM 58Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA WordPress plugin before 2.4.7 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00457 39th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA and NVD
Fix Fixed Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA (Unknown): 2.4.7
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA | before 2.4.7 | 2.4.7 | Patch available | CNA |
- Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA VendorUnknown Affected before 2.4.7 Fixed in 2.4.7 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:hu-manity:cookie_notice_\&_compliance_for_gdpr_\/_ccpa:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | before 2.4.7 | Vulnerable | Hu-manity.co |
- cpe:2.3:a:hu-manity:cookie_notice_\&_compliance_for_gdpr_\/_ccpa:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 2.4.7 Vulnerable ·Hu-manity.co
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA (Unknown) Fixed in 2.4.7
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-0823
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f923-fwmg-rmrc
References
More Hu-manity.co Cookie Notice & Compliance For Gdpr / Ccpa vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-10022 WordPress Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Plugin <= 2.4.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2021-06854 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA < 2.1.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
Sources
- CVE-2023-0823 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-0823 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f923-fwmg-rmrc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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