CVE-2022-3823

Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.9.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

The Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner WordPress plugin before 2.9.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected

Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner

CVSS v3.1 NVD

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 41st percentile

Published

2022-11-28

Updated

2025-04-25

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry