CVE-2022-3900 — The Cooked Pro WordPress plugin before 1

The Cooked Pro WordPress plugin before 1.7.5.7 does not properly validate or sanitize the recipe_args parameter before unserializing it in the cooked_loadmore action, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a PHP Object injection vulnerability.

01What is this vulnerability?

The Cooked Pro WordPress plugin before 1.7.5.7 does not properly validate or sanitize the recipe_args parameter before unserializing it in the cooked_loadmore action, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a PHP Object injection vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Cooked Pro	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-12T17:57:08.950Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-22T14:43:41.505Z

09References

• wpscan.com — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c969c4bc-82d7-46a0-88ba-e056c0b27de7