# CVE-2022-3823: Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.9.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner plugin, affecting multisite environments.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 25 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4mqw-j6gr-pfr9

## What is CVE-2022-3823?

CVE-2022-3823 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner, published on 28 Nov 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

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).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3823?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Beautiful-Cookie-Banner Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-3823?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-3823 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-3823 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-3823 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner

- [CVE-2023-3388](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3388/): Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner <= 2.10.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-3823 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-3823 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner, published on 28 Nov 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-3823 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3823/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3823/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3823
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3823
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3823

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3823/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.