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.

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)

EPSS: 0.004 (29.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Devowl Real Cookie Banner: Gdpr & Eprivacy Consent — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

References

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.