WordPress plugin
iubenda < 2.3.5 — Failure to Restrict URL Protocol
CVE-2020-12742Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.3.4Update to 2.3.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
iubenda | All-in-one Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Cookie Consent + more iubenda-cookie-law-solution
- Affected≤ 2.3.4
- Patched in2.3.5
Update to 2.3.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.3.4. Version 2.3.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under iubenda | All-in-one Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Cookie Consent + more.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 2.3.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch iubenda | All-in-one Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Cookie Consent + more to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.
The iubenda-cookie-law-solution plugin before 2.3.5 for WordPress does not restrict URL sanitization to http protocols.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in iubenda | All-in-one Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Cookie Consent + more
All 9| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated Denial of Service ≤3.13.6Update to 3.13.7 | CVE-2026-120854 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via IUB-COOKIE-BLOCK Marker ≤3.13.6Update to 3.13.7 | CVE-2026-120540 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤3.13.6Update to 3.13.7 | CVE-2026-86606 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content ≤3.13.4Update to 3.13.5 | CVE-2026-77263 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via AdSense Regex Rewrite ≤3.13.4Update to 3.13.5 | CVE-2026-77233 |
- High7.5Unauthenticated Denial of Service
≤3.13.6Update to 3.13.7
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via IUB-COOKIE-BLOCK Marker
≤3.13.6Update to 3.13.7
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.13.6Update to 3.13.7
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
≤3.13.4Update to 3.13.5
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via AdSense Regex Rewrite
≤3.13.4Update to 3.13.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.