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CVE-2026-86601: WP Recipe Maker < 10.8.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Content
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-23 · updated 2026-09-23
- Weakness: CWE-74
Description
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metadata, allowing unauthenticated users to have arbitrary shortcodes executed server side and to read the content of unpublished recipes.
Affected products
- brechtvds WP Recipe Maker: before 10.8.2 — fixed in 10.8.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: brechtvds WP Recipe Maker 10.8.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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