# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6p7r-732r-w94v

## 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 (Server-Side Request Forgery)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-12136 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12136 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12136 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12136 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: devowl Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent. 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-2025-12136/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12136/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12136
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12136
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12136

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12136/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.