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CVE-2024-37308: WordPress Cooked Plugin - Authenticated (Contributor+) Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Cooked Pro recipe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the `_recipe_settings[post_title]` parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.7.15.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page. A patch is available at commit 8cf88f334ccbf11134080bbb655c66f1cfe77026 and will be part of version 1.8.0.

Affected products

• XjSv Cooked: before 1.8.0 — fixed in 1.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: XjSv Cooked 1.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/commit/8cf88f334ccbf11134080bbb655c66f1cfe77026
• https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-9vfv-c966-jwrv
• https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/commit/8cf88f334ccbf11134080bbb655c66f1cfe77026
• https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-9vfv-c966-jwrv

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