Cooked – Recipe Management, CVE-2024-41816

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-41816
Home page URL: Security reports for Cooked – Recipe Management
Application: Cooked – Recipe Management
Published on: Aug 06, 2024
Research 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 versions: max 1.8.1.
Status: vulnerable