CVE-2025-1485: Devowl WordPress Real Cookie Banner

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 5.1.6, real-cookie-banner-pro WordPress plugin before 5.1.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• Devowl WordPress Real Cookie Banner: before 5.1.6 (fixed in 5.1.6)

Published 2025-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.