CVE-2025-12136 Server-side request forgery in Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
Administrators can exploit insufficient URL validation to perform Server-Side Request Forgery, accessing internal services via the scanner endpoint.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12136?
CVE-2025-12136 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in devowl Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent, published on 24 Oct 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12136?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12136?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12136 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2025-12136 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12136 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6p7r-732r-w94v.