WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2026-4758 Deferred

WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website: Code execution

WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website is affected by code execution. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. Successful exploitation can run attacker-controlled code in the WordPress hosting account. The published affected range is <= 2.4.9.

CVE / CNA score 8.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website
Plugin slug
wp-job-portal
Affected
<= 2.4.9
Safe version
> 2.4.9
Published
Mar 26, 2026
Weakness
CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

This CVE was published Mar 26, 2026 and is one of 41 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website to a release after 2.4.9, 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 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the 'WPJOBPORTALcustomfields::removeFileCustom' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Primary and upstream sources