Job Manager & Career: A security weakness
Job Manager & Career is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Job Manager & Career
- Plugin slug
job-manager-&-career- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 27, 2023
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Nov 27, 2023 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Job Manager & Career to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Job Manager & Career WordPress plugin before 1.4.4 contains a vulnerability in the Directory Listings system, which allows an unauthorized user to view and download private files of other users. This vulnerability poses a serious security threat because it allows an attacker to gain access to confidential data and files of other users without their permission.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N