WP Recipe Maker < 10.1.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

5.3
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2025-62897
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 26, 2025
Last Updated October 29, 2025
Researcher Najib Sinjari

Description

The The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to 10.1.0 (exclusive). This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Recipe Maker

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-recipe-maker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 10.1.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 10.1.0
Patched Version
  • 10.1.0

Recent vulnerabilities in WP Recipe Maker

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 WP Recipe Maker <= 10.3.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Metadata Modification via 'recipeId' Parameter CVE-2026-1558 5.3 Quốc Huy (jtwings) February 26, 2026
2 WP Recipe Maker <= 10.6.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure CVE-2025-14742 4.3 Abhinav Jaswal (wrath_exe) February 24, 2026
3 Recipe Maker <= 10.2.4 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-24357 4.3 daroo January 28, 2026
4 WP Recipe Maker <= 10.2.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2025-14385 6.4 Abhinav Jaswal (wrath_exe) December 16, 2025
5 WP Recipe Maker <= 10.2.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Sensitive Information Exposure CVE-2025-15527 4.3 Dmitrii Ignatyev December 11, 2025
6 WP Recipe Maker <= 9.8.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-1503 6.4 zer0gh0st March 12, 2025
7 WP Recipe Maker <= 9.6.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'tooltip' CVE-2024-9650 6.5 Webbernaut October 23, 2024
8 WP Recipe Maker <= 9.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'group_tag' CVE-2024-0383 6.4 wesley (wcraft) June 18, 2024
9 WP Recipe Maker <= 9.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via wprm-recipe-roundup-item Shortcode CVE-2024-3490 6.4 stealthcopter May 1, 2024
10 WP Recipe Maker <= 9.2.1 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Video Embed CVE-2024-1571 4.4 catfather March 14, 2024

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