CVE-2025-56795

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mealie 3.0.1 and earlier is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the recipe creation functionality. Unsanitized user input in the "note" and "text" fields of the "/api/recipes/{recipe_name}" endpoint is rendered in the frontend without proper escaping leading to persistent XSS.

Affected products

mealie-recipes mealie: through 3.0.1

References

https://github.com/B1tBreaker/CVE-2025-56795
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/issues/5677
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/5754

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