CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-6700
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-02-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Cookie Information | Free GDPR Consent Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary option updates due to a missing capability check on its AJAX request handler in versions up to, and including, 2.0.22. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access or higher, to edit arbitrary site options which can be used to create administrator accounts.
Affected configurations
• cookieinformation wp-gdpr-compliance (<= 2.0.22)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3028096/wp-gdpr-compliance/trunk?contextall=1&old=2865555&old_path=%2Fwp-gdpr-compliance%2Ftrunk Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/42a4ef37-c842-4925-b06a-3e6423337567?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3028096/wp-gdpr-compliance/trunk?contextall=1&old=2865555&old_path=%2Fwp-gdpr-compliance%2Ftrunk Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/42a4ef37-c842-4925-b06a-3e6423337567?source=cve Third Party Advisory