CVE-2026-75905 Missing authorization in WP Recipe Maker
Authenticated contributors can take ownership of admin recipes and unpublish them due to missing authorization checks in WP Recipe Maker.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-75905?
CVE-2026-75905 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in brechtvds WP Recipe Maker, published on 9 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-75905?
How do I fix CVE-2026-75905?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-75905 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-75905 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-75905 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hxrm-g829-m3g6.