WordPress security changelog
CRITICAL CVE-2025-54738 Deferred

Jobmonster: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass

Jobmonster is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.

CVE / CNA score 9.8 CVSS 3.1 · audit@patchstack.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Jobmonster
Plugin slug
noo-jobmonster
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Aug 28, 2025
Weakness
CWE-288 — Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

This CVE was published Aug 28, 2025 and is one of 11 known issues for this theme.

What to do

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Jobmonster to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Source record

Technical description

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in NooTheme Jobmonster noo-jobmonster allows Authentication Abuse.This issue affects Jobmonster: from n/a through <= 4.7.9.

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

References

Primary and upstream sources