CVE-2024-39680 WordPress Cooked Plugin - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Default Recipe Template Save

Medium 5.4 Published Updated

Attackers can trick authenticated users into saving default recipe templates via CSRF, requiring an upgrade to the Cooked plugin.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-39680?

CVE-2024-39680 is a medium-severity vulnerability in XjSv Cooked, published on 17 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cooked is a recipe plugin for WordPress. The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in versions up to, and including, 1.7.15.4 due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the AJAX action handler. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to trick users into performing an action they didn't intend to perform under their current authentication. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.8.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39680?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Boxystudio Cooked.

How do I fix CVE-2024-39680?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39680 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-39680 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-39680 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f2mc-hcp9-6xgr.

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