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CVE-2020-36718 (GCVE-0-2020-36718)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-07 01:51 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:12
VLAI
Title
GDPR CCPA Compliance Support <= 2.3 - PHP Object Injection
Summary
The GDPR CCPA Compliance Support plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 2.3 via deserialization of untrusted input "njt_gdpr_allow_permissions" value. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-26 17:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ninjateam GDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3 (semver)
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Credits
Jerome Bruandet
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