Tasty Recipes Lite vulnerability

What happened

The Tasty Recipes Lite WordPress plugin before 1.2.11 does not correctly check user capabilities when creating, renaming and deleting taxonomy terms, allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to add, rename and permanently delete terms in any taxonomy on the site, including categories, tags and navigation menus.

Affected versions

Tasty Recipes Lite: 1.2 through before 1.2.11 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.