CVE-2024-41816

WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Published Aug 5, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-39201 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Boxystudio
Boxystudio cooked
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:boxystudio:cooked:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Boxystudio
Boxystudio cooked
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Goratech
Goratech cooked
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:goratech:cooked:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Goratech
Goratech cooked
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 1:28 PM
Reserved
Jul 22, 2024, 1:57 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Aug 5, 2024, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:48 AM