Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in WP Job Portal Plugin
CVE-2024-11715

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System For Company Or Job Board Website
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 December 2024

Summary

The WP Job Portal plugin for WordPress suffers from a serious flaw due to inadequate capability checks in the assignUserRole() function. This oversight allows unauthenticated attackers to gain unauthorized access, potentially elevating their privileges to that of an employer. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized alterations or misuse of the recruitment system, making it crucial for users to upgrade to the latest version to mitigate risks.

Affected Version(s)

WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website * <= 2.2.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://gist.github.com/tvnnn/9b706643c5f88989c98815be8b1...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3202327/wp-j...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Tran Van Nhan
.