SSRF in Devowl Real Cookie Banner: Gdpr & Eprivacy Consent
CVE-2025-12136
The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4. This is due to insufficient validation on the user-supplied URL in the '/scanner/scan-without-login' REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services via the `url` parameter.
Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Devowl Real Cookie Banner: Gdpr & Eprivacy Consent — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db0…
- infosecstuff.com/SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php
- owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378727
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-12136?
- CVE-2025-12136 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Devowl Real Cookie Banner: Gdpr & Eprivacy Consent, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2025-10-24.
- How severe is CVE-2025-12136?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.