CVE-2021-24569: Hu-Manity Cookie Notice & Compliance For Gdpr / Ccpa

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 does not escape the value of its Button Text setting when outputting it in an attribute in the frontend, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Affected products

• Hu-Manity Cookie Notice & Compliance For Gdpr / Ccpa: before 2.1.2 (fixed in 2.1.2)

Published 2021-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.