CVE-2022-3823
Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.9.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WPScan
Description
The Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner WordPress plugin before 2.9.1 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).
Public exploit
2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit or proof of concept: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e (opens in a new tab)exploittechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.52% · top 56% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Affected products
Unknown · Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner
- affected < 2.9.1
References (2)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e (opens in a new tab)exploittechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a072b091-5e5f-4e88-bd3d-2f4582e6564e/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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