CVE-2023-6700: Cookieinformation Wp-Gdpr-Compliance

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Cookieinformation Wp-Gdpr-Compliance: up to and including 2.0.22

Published 2024-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.