easy.jobs <= 2.4.6 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

2024-01-21 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.4.7

Affected Plugineasy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution

Affected Version<= 2.4.6

CVSS6.5Medium

CVECVE-2023-6843

View all easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The easy.jobs- Best Recruitment Plugin for Job Board Listing, Manager, Career Page for Elementor & Gutenberg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the easyjobs_save_basic_info AJAX action (and many other AJAX actions) in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.4.7, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6843 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/33cdd58b-9e5e-492e-a211-78de592f0663

CVSS Vector

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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