Server-side request forgery in devowl Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-918 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12136
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6p7r-732r-w94v
References
Other 7
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db03dce2dd?source=cve
- https://infosecstuff.com/SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L48
- 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://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378727
More devowl vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-00270 Real Media Library < 4.18.29 - Author+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2022-04120 Real Cookie Banner < 3.4.10 - Contributor+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-01275 Real Cookie Banner < 5.1.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
- TI-2026-67409 Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent <= 5.3.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2024-02163 Real Media Library <= 4.22.11 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2024-01887 Improper input validation in devowl Real Media Library: Media Library Folder & File… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
Sources
- CVE-2025-12136 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-12136 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6p7r-732r-w94v · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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