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WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent < 2.14.2 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

CVE-2022-0445Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.14.2Update to 2.14.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent real-cookie-banner

  1. Affected< 2.14.2
  2. Patched in2.14.2

Update to 2.14.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.14.2. Version 2.14.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent.
  • 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

  1. Update to version 2.14.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krzysztof Zając.

The WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 2.14.2 does not have CSRF checks in place when resetting its settings, allowing attackers to make a logged in admin reset them via a CSRF attack.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent

All 6
More vulnerabilities in Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment
≤5.3.5Update to 5.3.6
CVE-2026-92977
Medium6.8Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via scan-without-login Endpoint
≤5.2.4Update to 5.2.5
CVE-2025-12136
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.1.5Update to 5.1.6
CVE-2025-1485
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
≤3.4.9Update to 3.4.10
CVE-2022-4507
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.18.1Update to 2.18.2
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Same weakness (CSRF)

All CSRF
Other CSRF vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup≤5.25.25Update to 5.26.45
CVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder≤1.0.2Update to 1.1
CVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System≤3.3.9Update to 3.4.0
CVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.

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