CVE-2026-115281: Recipe Card Blocks Lite SQL injection vulnerability
medium 6.8 published 2026-10-28
- Affected versions
- 3.5.0 up to (not including) 3.6.4
- Fixed in
- 3.6.4
- Latest version
- 3.6.4
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6.8
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- Type
- SQL injection
What an attacker needs
- Access: A logged-in account with Contributor-level access or higher.
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
What to do now
- Update Recipe Card Blocks Lite to 3.6.4 or newer: Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Recipe Card Blocks Lite issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get recipe-card-blocks-by-wpzoom --field=version. - If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.
The advisory
The Recipe Card Blocks Lite WordPress plugin before 3.6.4 does not sanitize and cast a block and shortcode attribute before concatenating it into SQL queries, allowing authenticated users with Contributor-level access or above to perform SQL injection attacks.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-115281 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
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Where this data comes from
- CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/recipe-card-blocks-by-wpzoom (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.