WordPress CVEs

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 WordPress components

• WP Recipe Maker Plugin · wp-recipe-maker
  Confirmed match Active
  Up to and including 10.8.0
  View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

• brechtvds WP Recipe Maker — Up to and including 10.8.0

References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-recipe-maker/tags/10.8.0/includes/public/class-wprm-recipe-saver.php#L572
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-recipe-maker/tags/10.8.0/includes/public/class-wprm-recipe-saver.php#L630
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-recipe-maker/tags/10.8.0/includes/public/class-wprm-recipe-saver.php#L729
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3677870%40wp-recipe-maker&new=3677870%40wp-recipe-maker
• www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eee25825-2308-4234-b72b-6cb11b658a6e?source=cve
• nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record