CVE-2025-23501
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SpruceJoy Cookie Consent & Autoblock for GDPR/CCPA cookie-consent-autoblock allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Cookie Consent & Autoblock for GDPR/CCPA: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA CSRF vulnerability in the SpruceJoy Cookie Consent & Autoblock plugin (versions <= 1.0.1) allows authenticated administrators to be tricked into submitting malicious requests that inject persistent XSS payloads into cookie consent settings. When other users view the affected cookie consent interface, the stored malicious script executes in their browsers.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if SpruceJoy Cookie Consent & Autoblock plugin is installedAccess your CMS plugin management interface or inspect the plugins directory to locate the SpruceJoy Cookie Consent & Autoblock pluginAffected if The plugin appears in your installed plugins list
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Check the installed plugin versionView the plugin details page or inspect the plugin metadata file to determine the exact version numberAffected if The version number is 1.0.1 or lower
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Inspect cookie consent settings for injected scriptsNavigate to the plugin settings page in the admin panel and examine all text fields that store cookie consent messages, banners, or policy content for any unexpected script tags, HTML script elements, or encoded JavaScript payloadsAffected if Any cookie consent configuration fields contain script tags, javascript: URLs, or suspicious encoded content that was not intentionally added by your admin team
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Review the plugin admin forms for CSRF protectionInspect the HTML source of the plugin admin pages and forms to determine if anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) are present in form submissions and AJAX requestsAffected if The forms lack CSRF token fields or the plugin does not validate nonce values on submission
You are affected if the SpruceJoy Cookie Consent & Autoblock plugin version is 1.0.1 or lower, especially if the admin interface lacks CSRF tokens and cookie consent settings contain unexpected script content.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all admin forms and AJAX endpoints, add proper input validation and sanitization for all user-supplied values, and apply output encoding when rendering cookie consent content to prevent XSS execution.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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