WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-41816",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode",
    "summary": "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.",
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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            "v1.7.15.3",
            "v1.7.15.2",
            "v1.7.14"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:53.199192175Z",
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        "https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-3gw3-2qjq-xqjj",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41816",
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  "published_at": "2024-08-05T20:12:41.428+00:00"
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