CVE-2021-24569

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2021-24569 · Published 27/09/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24569 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting cookie notice & compliance for gdpr / ccpa (hu-manity).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.62%, higher than 49.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.1.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cookie notice & compliance for gdpr / ccpa hu-manity	`< 2.1.2`	`2.1.2`

Description

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.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/38053e05-4b17-4fa9-acd3-85d8529b202b · Exploit

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