Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain Contributor-level account
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DeliveryInject script into recipe block HTML tag name
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ExploitPayload stored unescaped in recipe
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ExecutionAdmin/visitor views recipe page
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ImpactScript executes in victim browser session
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated account with the Contributor role or higher on the target WordPress site running WP Delicious before 1.10.8; the attacker must be able to create/edit a recipe block (the plugin's core feature). Exploitation depends on the unvalidated HTML tag name field in user-supplied recipe block data. Payload execution requires victim interaction (UI:R) - an administrator or visitor must view the published recipe page. Limiting factors: the contributor authentication barrier means this is not remotely exploitable against anonymous users, and sites that restrict recipe authorship to trusted users face lower practical risk; stored payloads on public recipe pages, however, will hit any casual visitor. |
| Impact | This is a stored/persistent Cross-Site Scripting flaw (CWE-79) in the WP Delicious recipe plugin, rated by the vendor at CVSS 6.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The signals point to a moderate, not urgent, priority. EPSS is very low at 0.15% (4th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, and the SSVC framework returns Exploitation: none and Automatable: no - indicating no observed exploitation and that this is not mass-scannable/wormable (it requires an authenticated contributor account). Countering this, a public POC exists via WPScan and SSVC rates Technical Impact as 'total', reflecting that arbitrary script execution in the admin/visitor browser context can fully compromise the affected session. Note two conflicts in the supplied vector: the description states 'Contributor role and above,' which is a LOW-privilege authenticated role and better maps to PR:L, yet the vendor vector uses PR:H - the vendor OVERSTATES the access barrier. Simultaneously the C:H/I:H/A:H impact metrics are INFLATED for a same-scope stored XSS, which normally yields limited C/I and no A. Net effect: this is a real but bounded issue gated behind an authenticated contributor account, best treated as medium priority - patch promptly but it is not a drop-everything emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who holds (or phishes/registers into) a Contributor account on a WP Delicious site edits a recipe block and injects a malicious HTML tag name containing a script payload, which is stored unescaped. When an administrator or ordinary visitor later views the published recipe page, the script executes in their browser under the site's origin, enabling session/cookie theft or admin actions via the victim's authenticated session. A public POC is available from WPScan, lowering the effort to reproduce. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 27, 2026
WP Delicious versions before 1.10.8 are affected by a stored cross-site scripting flaw that lets Contributor-level and higher accounts inject arbitrary HTML, including script tags, through unescaped HTML tag names in recipe block data, with execution occurring when a victim views the recipe page. Publicly available exploit code exists, the vendor has released a patch in version 1.10.8, and EPSS is low at 0.15% (4th percentile); no KEV listing or active exploitation has been confirmed.
RemediationAI
Upgrade WP Delicious to version 1.10.8 or later; this is the vendor-released patch and the primary remediation. Because publicly available exploit code exists, prioritize the update on any site allowing Contributor-level users to create or edit recipes. If immediate patching is not possible, temporarily restrict recipe creation and editing to Administrator accounts only (side effect: reduces content workflow but closes the Contributor attack path), or disable the recipe block feature until the update can be applied. Review existing recipe content for injected tags and remove any suspicious script elements. Refer to the vendor advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f76a4694-8073-41fe-bb49-4073e6e95ac3/ and the NVD entry at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92411 for details. A web application firewall rule blocking script tags in recipe fields can serve as a temporary compensating control, though it may not catch all obfuscated payloads.
Affected VersionsENISA
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation, i.e., cross-site scripting). WP Delicious is a WordPress recipe plugin whose recipe blocks accept user-supplied data, including an HTML tag name field. That field is neither validated nor escaped before being rendered on the front end, so an authenticated user with the Contributor role or higher can insert arbitrary tags, such as <script>, enabling stored XSS. The affected CPE string is cpe:2.3:a:unknown:wp_delicious:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (vendor not identified in NVD), and EUVD lists affected versions as WP Delicious 0 <1.10.8. The vendor advisory rates CVSS 6.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), while our independent assessment is AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, reflecting that a Contributor account (PR:L) is sufficient and that the stored payload can affect other users (scope change) but requires victim interaction (UI:R). CISA's SSVC decision framework records Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, and Technical Impact: total, though our independent assessment scores confidentiality and integrity impact as Low (C:L/I:L/A:N).
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Contributor is a low-privilege authenticated role (PR:L, not PR:H); stored XSS needs victim page view (UI:R), crosses into the browser context (S:C), with limited C/I and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The WP Delicious WordPress plugin before 1.10.8 does not validate or escape the HTML tag name taken from user-supplied recipe block data before rendering it on the front end, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary HTML tags, including script tags, which execute when the recipe page is viewed.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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