{"id":"CVE-2022-0220","aliases":["EUVD-2022-15421","GHSA-7c99-6mgq-969f"],"status":"published","title":"WordPress GDPR \u0026 CCPA \u003c 1.9.27 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting","description":"The check_privacy_settings 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 browser led to this endpoint. Javascript code may be executed on a victim's browser. 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