CVE-2025-1666 Missing authorization in Cookiebot by Usercentrics – Automatic Cookie Banner for GDPR/CCPA & Google Consent Mode
Authenticated subscribers can submit uninstall surveys on behalf of the website due to missing capability checks in the Cookiebot CMP plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-1666?
CVE-2025-1666 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Cookiebot by Usercentrics – Automatic Cookie Banner for GDPR/CCPA & Google Consent Mode, published on 6 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Cookie banner plugin for WordPress – Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the send_uninstall_survey() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to submit the uninstall survey on behalf of a website.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1666?
How do I fix CVE-2025-1666?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1666 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-1666 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1666 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j574-v322-ccpg.