WP Recipe Maker <= 9.1.0 - Directory Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2024-0380
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published January 17, 2024
Last Updated July 29, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.0 via the 'icon' attribute used in Shortcodes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to include the contents of SVG files on the server, which can be leveraged for Cross-Site Scripting.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-recipe-maker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 9.1.0
Patched Version
  • 9.1.1
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