CVE-2020-36718 - CVE House

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Status published Critical CVE-2020-36718

GDPR CCPA Compliance Support <= 2.3 - PHP Object Injection

9.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The GDPR CCPA Compliance Support plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 2.3 via deserialization of untrusted input "njt_gdpr_allow_permissions" value. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Jerome Bruandet

References

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Affected Vendor

ninjateam

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Affected Software

GDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 7th, 2023

Last Modified: April 8th, 2026

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1505.003 Web Shell

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation