WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website: A security weakness
WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website
- Plugin slug
wp-job-portal- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 01, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Feb 01, 2025 and is one of 41 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website 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 WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary emails sending due to a missing capability check on the sendEmailToJobSeeker() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send arbitrary emails with arbitrary content from the sites mail server.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N