Vulnerability · Published Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-41816WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Cooked from XjSv. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 32% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 67.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
XjSv	Cooked	< 1.8.1

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

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