CVE-2026-18046: Unknown Cookie Consent

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 0.0.10 does not correctly enforce its intended administrator-only capability check on the REST route that stores its geolocation service license key, so the route falls back to an authentication-only gate, allowing any authenticated user such as a subscriber to overwrite the stored key and disrupt the Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 0.0.10's geolocation-based consent banner targeting.

Affected products

• Unknown Cookie Consent: from 0.0.9, before 0.0.10 (fixed in 0.0.10)

Published 2026-08-12. Last modified 2026-08-26.