Cooked plugin vulnerable to Persistent XSS
CVE-2024-41816

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Cooked
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 August 2024

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Cooked < 1.8.1

References

https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-3...
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https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/commit/ac7455bdccc99fb2f5b...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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