WP Job Portal: A security weakness
WP Job Portal 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. The published affected range is < 2.5.5.
- Component
- WP Job Portal
- Plugin slug
wp-job-portal- Affected
- < 2.5.5
- Safe version
2.5.5- Published
- Jul 13, 2026
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Jul 13, 2026 and is one of 41 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WP Job Portal to 2.5.5 or later, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
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 WordPress plugin before 2.5.5 does not verify ownership when returning an employer's contact email for a given job, allowing authenticated users with a subscriber-level (self-registerable) account to read other employers' private account email addresses by enumerating job identifiers.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N