# CVE-2024-41816: WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

> Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via a shortcode, leading to persistent XSS execution for other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3gw3-2qjq-xqjj

## What is CVE-2024-41816?

CVE-2024-41816 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in XjSv Cooked, published on 5 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, 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 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.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-41816?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Boxystudio Cooked.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-41816?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-41816 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-41816 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-41816 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-2024-39682](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39682/): WordPress Cooked Plugin - Authenticated (Contributor+) HTML Injection via Recipe Excerpt (medium 6.4)
- [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-2024-39680](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-2024-41816 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-41816 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in XjSv Cooked, published on 5 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-41816 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-2024-41816/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41816/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41816
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41816
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-41816

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.