CVE-2024-39682: WordPress Cooked Plugin - Authenticated (Contributor+) HTML Injection via Recipe Excerpt

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: 2024-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-116

Description

Cooked is a recipe plugin for WordPress. The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection 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 HTML in pages that will be shown whenever a user accesses a compromised page. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.8.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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

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