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Cookie Notice & Consent <= 1.6.5 — Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2025-10496Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.6.5Update to 1.6.6 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
High7.2
CVSS
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Cookie Notice & Consent cookie-notice-consent

  1. Affected≤ 1.6.5
  2. Patched in1.6.6

Update to 1.6.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.6.5. Version 1.6.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Cookie Notice & 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 1.6.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Cookie Notice & Consent to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Muhammad Yudha - DJ.

The Cookie Notice & Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the uuid parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Cookie Notice & Consent

All 3
More vulnerabilities in Cookie Notice & Consent
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.6.4Update to 1.6.5
CVE-2025-49390
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.6.0Update to 1.6.1
CVE-2023-41948

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.2

  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.
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