XjSv Cooked Plugin up to 1.8.0 on WordPress Shortcode cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in XjSv Cooked Plugin up to 1.8.0 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Shortcode Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-41816. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in XjSv Cooked Plugin up to 1.8.0 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-41816 since 07/22/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.8.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch ac7455bdccc99fb2f5b3c7611312947c1623c3ec is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• XjSv

Name

• Cooked Plugin

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8.0

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• open-source

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