CVE-2024-41816

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.4
Exploit probability—
ProductBoxystudio Cooked
PublishedAug 5, 2024
First seenAug 5, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • boxystudio cooked1.8.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
boxystudio cookedv < 1.8.11.8.1

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