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

> Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary HTML into recipe excerpts, potentially leading to script execution or session hijacking for site visitors.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fx69-f77x-84gr

## What is CVE-2024-39682?

CVE-2024-39682 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in XjSv Cooked, published on 17 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-116 (Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39682?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Boxystudio Cooked.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-39682?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39682 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-39682 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-39682 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in XjSv Cooked

- [CVE-2022-3900](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3900/): Cooked Pro < 1.7.5.7 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-44477](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-44477/): WordPress Cooked Plugin <= 1.7.13 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2021-24233](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24233/): Cooked Pro < 1.7.5.6 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-41816](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41816/): WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-39680](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39680/): WordPress Cooked Plugin - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Default Recipe Template Save (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-39682 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-39682 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in XjSv Cooked, published on 17 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-39682 exists.

Affected product: XjSv Cooked. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39682/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39682/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39682
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39682
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-39682

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