Career Section

Career Section has 2 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2026; all 2 are fixed as of August 2026. Their average CVSS score is 9.3, and the most serious one scores 9.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 1 critical and 1 high. 2026 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Path Traversal, behind 1 of the records (50%). Other recurring categories include Unrestricted Upload Of File With Dangerous Type.

Every one of the 2 issues recorded for Career Section has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

2 independent researchers contributed these findings, one record each. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSCritical

9.3/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 9.8CVE-2026-6271

Career Section <= 1.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

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Vulnerability Records

2 records


2026-05-13 18:04	Career Section <= 1.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload Career Section <= 1.7	`CVE-2026-6271`	9.8 Critical	Paolo Tresso	Yes
2026-04-15 18:53	Career Section <= 1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion Career Section <= 1.6	`CVE-2025-14868`	8.8 High	Ivan Cese	Yes

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Latestv1.8

Career Section

Author

Md. Shahinur Islam

0.0(0)

0/100

Last Updated

2026-04-16 (4mo ago)

Active Installs

Downloads

2,000

Requires WP

5.8+

Requires PHP

7.4+

Tested up to

WP 6.9.7

Created

2023-01-07 (4y ago)

Career Section shortcode for WordPress and easy to install. Take full control over your WordPress site, build any shortcode paste you can imagine – no programming knowledge required. Docs & Support You can find docs, FAQ and more detailed information about career-section on gitlab. If you were unable to find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, you should check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you can’t locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it. Why Use Career Section? Career Section gives you all the features needed to job listed without any hassle. Career Section Needs Your Support It is hard to continue development and support for this free plugin without contributions from users like you. If you enjoy using Career Section and find it useful, please consider making a donation. Your donation will help encourage and support the plugin’s continued development and better user support. Find on gitlab. Gitlab Our Other Plugins Download PDF After Submit Form Feedback Form Users Meta-box GalleryMeta Post Auto Vertical Scrolling Simple Font Resizer Post Date Range Filter Scoreboard UI

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