CVE-2024-41816

Cooked is a recipe plugin for WordPress. The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the ‘[cooked-timer]’ shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.8.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.8.1. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium

Status

Analyzed - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2024-08-05

Last modified

2024-08-08

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Cooked (Boxystudio)
• Cooked (Goratech)
• Cooked (Xjsv)

References

• https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/commit/ac7455bdccc99fb2f5b3c7611312947c1623c3ec
• https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-3gw3-2qjq-xqjj