CVE-2024-41816 Information

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.

Reference

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