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CVE-2025-11186 — Cookie Compliance for WordPress – Cookie Consent, GDPR & CCPA [cookie-notice] < 2.5.9

CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2025-11186 Cookie Compliance for WordPress – Cookie Consent, GDPR & CCPA [cookie-notice] < 2.5.9 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Medium 6.4 < 2.5.9 2.5.9 2025-11-21 —

CVE-2025-11186

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin, up to version 2.5.8, is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks through the cookies_accepted shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes allow authenticated attackers with at least contributor-level access to inject malicious scripts that can be executed whenever a user views an affected page.

Based on public CVE data (MITRE/NVD).

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