CVE-2024-37308 — The Cooked Pro recipe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Sit

The Cooked Pro recipe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the `_recipe_settings[post_title]` parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.7.15.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows auth

01What is this vulnerability?

The Cooked Pro recipe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the `_recipe_settings[post_title]` parameter 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 web scripts in pages that will execute…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
XjSv	Cooked	< 1.8.0

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: 2024-06-13T13:46:14.254Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T03:50:56.116Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-9vfv-c966-jwrv
• github.com — https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/commit/8cf88f334ccbf11134080bbb655c66f1cfe77026