Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.4.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'cookies_policy_link' Shortcodes

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2023-24400
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 2, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad - Awesome Motive, Inc.

Description

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cookies_policy_link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level access, and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Vulnerability Details for Compliance by Hu-manity.co

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug cookie-notice (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.4.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.6
Patched Version
  • 2.4.7

Recent vulnerabilities in Compliance by Hu-manity.co

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.5.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2025-11186 6.4 Muhammad Yudha - DJ November 21, 2025
2 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.5.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-67554 6.4 Peter Thaleikis October 21, 2025
3 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.4.17.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-3399 4.4 c3p0d4y August 15, 2024
4 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.4.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'cookies_revoke_shortcode' Shortcode CVE-2023-0823 6.4 Erwan LR March 6, 2023
5 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.1.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-24569 4.8 Asif Nawaz Minhas August 30, 2021

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