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FKIE_CVE-2025-1666

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-06 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:39

Severity

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cookiebot/tags/4.4.1/src/lib/Cookiebot_Review.php#L135
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3251089%40cookiebot&new=3251089%40cookiebot&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d2e5fca6-363c-4875-9eb8-44e080d99650?source=cve

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

JSON

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    },
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T08:39:34.010",
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    },
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CVE-2025-1666 (GCVE-0-2025-1666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-06 11:11 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:25

Title

Cookie banner plugin for WordPress – Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics <= 4.4.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Survey Submission

Summary

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-06 16:18 UTC

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cookie…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
cookiebot	Cookiebot by Usercentrics – Automatic Cookie Banner for GDPR/CCPA & Google Consent Mode	Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.4.1 (semver)

Credits

Peter Thaleikis

Show details on NVD website

JSON

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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