CVE-2024-39682: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in versions up to, and including, 1.7.15.4. This vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on July 17, 2024. The affected software is the Cooked recipe plugin for WordPress, specifically versions 1.7.15.4 and earlier (GitHub Advisory).

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin. It has been assigned CVE-2024-39682 and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) from NIST and 6.4 (Medium) from GitHub. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and CWE-116 (Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output) (NVD).

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. The injected content becomes visible on both the newly created recipe page and the general recipe browse page (GitHub Advisory).

This security issue has been addressed in release version 1.8.0. Users are advised to upgrade to this version as there are no known workarounds for this vulnerability (GitHub Advisory).