CVE-2024-11715

WP Job Portal <= 2.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Limited Privilege Escalation

2024-12-13 00:00
thevietronin

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.2.3
Affected Plugin
WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website
Affected Version
<= 2.2.2
CVSS
4.8Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-11715
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At a glance

CVE-2024-11715 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the WP Job Portal WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.2.2. It carries a CVSS score of 4.8 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.2.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by thevietronin.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the assignUserRole() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an employer.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

WP Job Portal <= 2.2.2 carries this weakness at assignUserRole(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For WP Job Portal the fix is 2.2.3: builds <= 2.2.2 are affected, anything from 2.2.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.2.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP Job Portal 2.2.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11715https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4107199d-e3c7-4379-b39d-1868de7d777bhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11715

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