{"id":"CVE-2025-12136","title":"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","summary":"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 …","severity":"medium","cvss":6.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","cwe":["CWE-918"],"published":"2025-10-24","updated":"2026-10-08","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-08T11:10:00.250","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12136","references":[{"url":"https://infosecstuff.com/SSRF-Real-Cookie-Banner","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L210","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L223","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-cookie-banner/trunk/inc/rest/Scanner.php#L48","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378727","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f559d7f-3faf-4549-b529-f4db03dce2dd?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00392,"epssPercentile":0.31197,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-08T11:31:27.573Z","slug":"CVE-2025-12136","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":37,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":37.4,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}