CVE-2024-41816: Boxystudio Cooked

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Boxystudio Cooked: before 1.8.1 (fixed in 1.8.1)

Published 2024-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.