Cooked <= 1.16.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Recipe Fields
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2269
- Plugin
- Cooked – Recipe Management (cooked)
- Affected
- all versions before 1.17.0
- Remediation
- Update to 1.17.0 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-03
- Attack surface
- Cooked on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via recipe fields such as the excerpt, notes, and directions in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.2. This is due to the [cooked-info] shortcode registering a wp_kses_allowed_html filter that permits <script> tags and never removing it, so later wp_kses_post calls on the same request allow scripts. Recipe input was also entity-decoded only once before sanitization and decoded again at output, which let double-encoded markup survive. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2269/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/cooked/tags/1.17.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/cooked/
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