WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes): Cross-site scripting
WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes) is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed. The published affected range is <= 1.10.2.
- Component
- WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes)
- Plugin slug
delicious-recipes- Affected
- <= 1.10.2
- Safe version
> 1.10.2- Published
- Jul 16, 2026
This CVE was published Jul 16, 2026 and is one of 8 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes) to a release after 1.10.2, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Delicious Recipes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'steps' block attribute in versions up to, and including, 1.10.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the wrap_direction_text() function, which interpolates the user-supplied href value from nested link nodes ($node['props']['href']) directly into an anchor tag via sprintf() at line 1627 without esc_url() or any URL scheme validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts (including javascript: URIs) in pages that will execute whenever a user (such as an editor or administrator previewing the pending post) accesses an injected page and clicks the malicious link.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N