CVE-2022-0220 WordPress GDPR & CCPA < 1.9.27 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The checkprivacysettings AJAX action of the WordPress GDPR WordPress plugin before 1.9.27, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, responds with JSON data without an "application/json" content-type. Since an HTML payload isn't properly escaped, it may be interpreted by a web...

CVE-2021-24814 WordPress GDPR & CCPA < 1.9.26 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The checkprivacysettings AJAX action of the WordPress GDPR WordPress plugin before 1.9.26, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, responds with JSON data without an "application/json" content-type. Since an HTML payload isn't properly escaped, it may be interpreted by a web...

CVE-2021-24814

The CVE-2021-24814 entry concerns the WordPress GDPR & CCPA plugin (before 1.9.26). The check_privacy_settings AJAX action responds with JSON data without an application/json content-type, allowing HTML payloads to be interpreted by the victim’s browser. This enables JavaScript execution in the b...

German Court Rules Websites Embedding Google Fonts Violates GDPR

A regional court in the German city of Munich has ordered a website operator to pay €100 in damages for transferring a user's personal data — i.e., IP address — to Google via the search giant's Fonts library without the individual's consent. The unauthorized disclosure of the plaintiff's IP addre...

PT-2022-7141 · WordPress · Wordpress Gdpr Plugin

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress GDPR plugin versions prior to 1.9.27 Description: The issue concerns the check privacy settings AJAX action in the WordPress GDPR plugin, which is accessible to both unauthenticated and authenticated users. This action responds with...

WordPress GDPR & CCPA < 1.9.27 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The checkprivacysettings AJAX action of the plugin, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, responds with JSON data without an "application/json" content-type. Since an HTML payload isn't properly escaped, it may be interpreted by a web browser led to this endpoint. Javascript...

WordPress WordPress GDPR & CCPA premium plugin <= 1.9.25 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Ace Candelario @0xspade and Victor Paynat-Sautivet 3DS Outscale SOC in WordPress WordPress GDPR & CCPA premium plugin versions = 1.9.25. Solution Update the WordPress WordPress GDPR & CCPA premium plugin to the latest...

WordPress GDPR & CCPA < 1.9.26 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The checkprivacysettings AJAX action of the plugin, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, responds with JSON data without an "application/json" content-type. Since an HTML payload isn't properly escaped, it may be interpreted by a web browser led to this endpoint. Javascript...

WordPress WordPress GDPR & CCPA premium plugin <= 1.9.26 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Ace Candelario @0xspade and Victor Paynat-Sautivet 3DS Outscale SOC in WordPress WordPress GDPR & CCPA premium plugin versions = 1.9.26. Solution Update the WordPress WordPress GDPR & CCPA premium plugin to the latest...

WordPress GDPR & CCPA < 1.9.26 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The checkprivacysettings AJAX action of the plugin, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, responds with JSON data without an "application/json" content-type. Since an HTML payload isn't properly escaped, it may be interpreted by a web browser led to this endpoint. Javascript...

WordPress GDPR & CCPA < 1.9.27 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The checkprivacysettings AJAX action of the plugin, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users, responds with JSON data without an "application/json" content-type. Since an HTML payload isn't properly escaped, it may be interpreted by a web browser led to this endpoint. Javascript...

Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private

Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. Those in Chile, for example, enjoy a globally rare...

Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning

Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow...

WordPress Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent plugin <= 5.5.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Krzysztof Zając in WordPress Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent plugin versions = 5.5.2. Solution Update the WordPress Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent plugin to the latest available version at least 6.0.0...

Complianz - GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent < 6.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting PoC https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cmplz-proof-of-consent=%22+style%3Danimation-name%3Ashine+onanimationstart%3Dalert%281%29+x%3D...

Complianz - GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent < 6.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cmplz-proof-of-consent&s=%22+style%3Danimation-name%3Ashine+onanimationstart%3Dalert%281%29+x%3D...

The 2021 Naughty and Nice Lists: Cybersecurity Edition

Editor’s note: We had planned to publish our Hacky Holidays blog series throughout December 2021 – but then Log4Shell happened, and we dropped everything to focus on this major vulnerability that impacted the entire cybersecurity community worldwide. Now that it’s 2022, we’re feeling in need of...

Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse

French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de lInformatique et des Libertés CNIL, has hit Google with a 150 million euro fine and Facebook with a 60 million euro fine, because their websites—google.fr, youtube.com, and facebook.com—dont make refusing cookies as easy as accepting them. The...

CVE-2021-36889

Multiple Stored Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerabilities were discovered in tarteaucitron.js – Cookies legislation & GDPR WordPress plugin versions = 1.6...

CVE-2021-36887

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability leading to Cross-Site Scripting XSS discovered in tarteaucitron.js – Cookies legislation & GDPR WordPress plugin versions = 1.5.4, vulnerable parameters "tarteaucitronEmail" and "tarteaucitronPass"...