CVE-2026-86601

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

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metadata, allowing unauthenticated users to have arbitrary shortcodes executed server side and to read the content of unpublished recipes.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

WP Recipe Maker

CVSS v3.1 WPSCAN

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 7th percentile

Published

2026-09-23

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry