VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-41816

CVSS score5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-08-05
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-79
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Primary references