CVE-2026-77829

The Cooked – Recipe Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via [cooked-timer] Shortcode Content in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS 3.1

6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-79

Published

2026-10-16

Modified

2026-10-16

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cooked/tags/1.16.0/includes/class.cooked-shortcodes.php#L128
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cooked/tags/1.16.0/includes/class.cooked-shortcodes.php#L155
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cooked/tags/1.16.0/includes/class.cooked-shortcodes.php#L159
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3729711%40cooked&new=3729711%40cooked
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0592380d-fd78-48ed-a180-299fc20a41ee?source=cve

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