Description
Mealie 3.0.1 and earlier is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the recipe creation functionality. Unsanitized user input in the "note" and "text" fields of the "/api/recipes/{recipe_name}" endpoint is rendered in the frontend without proper escaping leading to persistent XSS.
Affected products
mealie: mealie
References3
- github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/5754 Issue TrackingPatch
- github.com/B1tBreaker/CVE-2025-56795 Exploit
- github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/issues/5677 ExploitIssue Tracking
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.0
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 31 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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