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CVE-2021-24233: Cooked Pro < 1.7.5.6 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Cooked Pro WordPress plugin before 1.7.5.6 was affected by unauthenticated reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues, due to improper sanitisation of user input while being output back in pages as an arbitrary attribute.

Affected products

• XjSv Cooked: before 1.7.5.6 — fixed in 1.7.5.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: XjSv Cooked 1.7.5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ed620de5-1ad2-4480-b08b-719480472bc0
• https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/reflected-xss-found-in-cooked-pro-recipe-plugin-for-wordpress/
• https://www.jinsonvarghese.com/reflected-xss-vulnerability-found-in-cooked-pro-plugin/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ed620de5-1ad2-4480-b08b-719480472bc0
• https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/reflected-xss-found-in-cooked-pro-recipe-plugin-for-wordpress/
• https://www.jinsonvarghese.com/reflected-xss-vulnerability-found-in-cooked-pro-plugin/

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