Vulnerability · Published Sep 9, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-75905WP Recipe Maker <= 10.8.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Recipe Ownership Takeover and Unpublishing via '[wprm-recipe]' Shortcode
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in WP Recipe Maker from brechtvds. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 10.8.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to take ownership of any admin-authored recipe by rewriting its post_author to the attacker's user ID, and unpublish it by overwriting its post_status with the contributor's draft or pending post status. This requires the default 'recipe_use_author' setting to be set to 'parent' for the ownership transfer to occur, though unpublishing remains possible regardless of this setting.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| brechtvds | WP Recipe Maker | 0 – through 10.8.0 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eee25825-2308-4234-b72b-6cb11b658a6e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-recipe-maker/tags/10.8.0/includes/public/class-wprm-recipe-saver.php#L729
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-recipe-maker/tags/10.8.0/includes/public/class-wprm-recipe-saver.php#L572
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-recipe-maker/tags/10.8.0/includes/public/class-wprm-recipe-saver.php#L630
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3677870%40wp-recipe-maker&new=3677870%40wp-recipe-maker