CVE-2024-41816CWE-79

WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Medium · published August 5, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00381 · 30.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2024-08-05T20:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 20:12Z
    WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
    cvelistv5