WP Job Board Pro < 1.2.85 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via process_register
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.85
- Affected Plugin
- WP Job Board Pro
- Affected Version
< 1.2.85- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
- CVE
CVE-2024-12213
At a glance
CVE-2024-12213 is a critical-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the WP Job Board Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.2.85. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.85; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Foxyyy.
Vulnerability Overview
The WP Job Board Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to 2.3.16. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to supply the 'role' field when registering. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator on vulnerable sites. Please note that this may have been patched sooner, however, the oldest available version for us to confirm this is patched in was 1.2.85.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.85, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP Job Board Pro 1.2.85 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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