Insecure Direct Object Reference in WP Job Portal Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-12131

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System For Company Or Job Board Website
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 January 2025

Summary

The WP Job Portal plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows authenticated users, with Subscriber-level access and higher, to manipulate requests and submit resumes on behalf of other users. This weakness arises due to insufficient validation on a user-controlled key, potentially compromising the integrity of applicant information. All versions of the plugin prior to 2.2.6 are affected, providing a significant security risk for recruitment systems leveraging this widely used plugin.

Affected Version(s)

WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website * <= 2.2.5

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Apostolos Sakellariou
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