CVE-2026-86601 PUBLISHED

WP Recipe Maker < 10.8.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Content

Assigner: WPScan
Reserved: 08.09.2026 Published: 23.09.2026 Updated: 23.09.2026

The WP Recipe Maker WordPress plugin before 10.8.2 does not remove shortcodes from comment content before expanding it while building a page's structured metadata, allowing unauthenticated users to have arbitrary shortcodes executed server side and to read the content of unpublished recipes.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Unknown
Product	WP Recipe Maker
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 10.8.2 (excl.)

Credits

Jakub Herman finder
WPScan coordinator

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/be6b1fb1-222d-4563-8a19-41bed1960001/

Problem Types

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') CWE