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CVE-2024-8397 (GCVE-0-2024-8397)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-15 20:07 – Updated: 2025-05-17 03:18
VLAI
Title
GDPR Cookie Consent <= 2.6.0 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
Summary
The webtoffee-gdpr-cookie-consent WordPress plugin before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize and escape the IP headers when logging them, allowing visitors to conduct Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. The payload gets triggered when an admin visits the 'Consent report' page and the malicious script is executed in the admin context.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-17 03:17 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/847fbf5d-f7cf-49… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown webtoffee-gdpr-cookie-consent Affected: 0 , < 2.6.1 (semver)
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Credits
Zitec/Teodora Jilaveanu WPScan
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