CVE-2026-86608 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Recipe Maker WordPress plugin before 10.8.2 does not have any authorisation check in one of its REST routes, nor does it bound what that route stores, allowing unauthenticated users to write unlimited data into any user's metadata and to permanently prevent that account, including an administrator's, from loading.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00199.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d7f0f9dd-4180-4210-9c48-dae67e8f5d8e/

History

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The WP Recipe Maker WordPress plugin before 10.8.2 does not have any authorisation check in one of its REST routes, nor does it bound what that route stores, allowing unauthenticated users to write unlimited data into any user's metadata and to permanently prevent that account, including an administrator's, from loading.
Title		WP Recipe Maker 9.8.0 - 10.8.1 - Unauthenticated DoS via Unbounded User Meta Insertion
Weaknesses		CWE-400
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d7f0f9dd-4180-4210-9c48-dae67e8f5d8e/
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-09-23T06:00:19.084Z

Updated: 2026-09-23T10:55:24.252Z

Reserved: 2026-09-08T08:46:31.818Z

Link: CVE-2026-86608

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-23T10:41:16.188Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-23T06:17:04.030

Modified: 2026-09-23T11:17:14.570

Link: CVE-2026-86608

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-400

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