# CVE-2025-23213: Tandoor Recipes - Stored XSS through Unrestricted File Upload

> Attackers can inject malicious scripts via uploaded HTML or SVG files, leading to stored XSS in Tandoor Recipes.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-56jp-j3x5-hh2w

## What is CVE-2025-23213?

CVE-2025-23213 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in TandoorRecipes recipes, published on 28 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. The file upload feature allows to upload arbitrary files, including html and svg. Both can contain malicious content (XSS Payloads). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.28.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23213?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tandoor Recipes.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-23213?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23213 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-23213 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-23213 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in TandoorRecipes recipes

- [CVE-2025-23211](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23211/): Tandoor Recipes - SSTI - Remote Code Execution (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-33152](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33152/): Tandoor Recipes Vulnerable to Unrestricted Brute-Force via BasicAuthentication (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-35488](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35488/): Tandoor Recipes — CustomIsShared permits DELETE/PUT on RecipeBook by shared (read-only) users (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2026-35045](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35045/): Tandoor Recipes Affected by Private Recipe Exposure and Unauthorized Modification (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2026-33149](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33149/): Tandoor Recipes Vulnerable to Host Header Injection (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-23213 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-23213 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in TandoorRecipes recipes, published on 28 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-23213 exists.

Affected product: TandoorRecipes recipes. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23213/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23213/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23213
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23213
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23213

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23213/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.