CVE-2025-10496
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Publication date: 2025-10-09

Last updated on: 2025-10-09

Assigner: Wordfence

Description
The Cookie Notice & Consent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the uuid parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Published
2025-10-09
Last Modified
2025-10-09
Generated
2026-06-16
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2025-10-09
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-15
NVD
CVE-2025-10496
EUVD
EUVD-2025-33266
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Vendor Product Version / Range
wordpress cookie_notice_and_consent 1.6.5
wordpress cookie_notice_and_consent 1.6.6
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CWE ID Description
CWE-80 The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in the Cookie Notice & Consent plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 1.6.5. It occurs because the plugin does not properly sanitize or escape the 'uuid' parameter, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute when users visit the affected pages.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can allow attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of users visiting the affected website. This can lead to theft of user data, session hijacking, defacement, or other malicious actions without requiring authentication.

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