CVE-2025-56795

critical · 9

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.

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

30th

EPSS percentile

2025-09-29

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
mealie	mealie	<= 3.0.1

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References

https://github.com/B1tBreaker/CVE-2025-56795
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/issues/5677
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/5754

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-56795