CVE-2021-24653: Cookie-Bar Project Cookie-Bar

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

The Cookie Bar WordPress plugin before 1.8.9 doesn't properly sanitise the Cookie Bar Message setting, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

• Cookie-Bar Project Cookie-Bar: before 1.8.9 (fixed in 1.8.9)

Published 2021-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.