WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Real Cookie Banner < 5.3.6 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Comment

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Malicious script payloads placed in the title attribute of an anchor tag survive WordPress's comment kses filter at save time, as the payload is only promoted to executable HTML attributes when the plugin's page-wide regex strips the closing quote delimiter at render time; exploitability is therefore subject to the standard comment moderation workflow before the comment is publicly displayed.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.3.6

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Pham Duc Anh
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-02 (about 15 days ago)
Added
2026-10-02 (about 14 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-02 (about 14 days ago)

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