Cookie Consent: Custom essential cookies

Hi,

we’ve modified out cookie consent a little, putting our custom PHPSESSID cookie in the ‘essential’ category and disabling the toggles for this category with the following code.

function enforceTechnicalCookiesMayNotBeDisabled() {
    $output = '';
    $output .= '
         <script>
             (function ($) {
                    "use strict";            
                 $("#aviaPrivacyCustomCookiePHPSESSIDDisabled").attr("disabled","disabled");
               	 $("#aviaPrivacyCustomCookiePHPSESSIDDisabled").attr("checked","checked");
               	 $("#aviaPrivacyRefuseCookiesHideBar").attr("disabled","disabled");
              	 $("#aviaPrivacyEssentialCookiesEnabled").attr("disabled","disabled");
                 $(document).on("click", ".br-privacyentry a", function() {
                     $(".avia-cookie-consent-button.avia-cookie-info-btn").click();
                 });                  
             }(jQuery));
 
         </script>
         ';
    echo $output;
}
add_action('wp_footer', 'enforceTechnicalCookiesMayNotBeDisabled', 10000);
add_action('admin_footer', 'enforceTechnicalCookiesMayNotBeDisabled', 10000);

The overall cookie behaviour is Opt-In; only essential cookies being enabled in the modal.
Since PHPSESSID is not an essential cookie in itself, we added the attribute checked=”checked” as can be seen in the code above.

It used to work but I’ve just noticed that the toggle is turned off on the page. When I use the option “Accept all cookies” on the banner, the cookie “PHPSESSIDDisabled” is set with the value “true” which didn’t happen before either.
The issue is occurring across multiple pages.