CVE-2024-39682 MEDIUM

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

Vendor Xjsv
Product Cooked
Weakness CWE-116
Published July 17, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

6.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 17, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated