CVE-2025-26983

Recipe Card Blocks for Gutenberg & Elementor <= 3.4.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Disclosure

2025-02-23 00:00
Prissy

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.4.4
Affected Plugin
Recipe Card Blocks Lite
Affected Version
<= 3.4.3
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2025-26983
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At a glance

CVE-2025-26983 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Recipe Card Blocks Lite WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.4.3. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 3.4.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Prissy.

Vulnerability Overview

The Recipe Card Blocks for Gutenberg & Elementor – Best WordPress Recipe Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.3 via the render() function due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Recipe Card Blocks Lite <= 3.4.3 carries this weakness at render(), and reaching it takes an account at Contributor level or above. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Recipe Card Blocks Lite the fix is 3.4.4: builds <= 3.4.3 are affected, anything from 3.4.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.4.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Recipe Card Blocks Lite 3.4.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-26983https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c05dcd9-71d2-4881-b5aa-335821ff95b3https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26983

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