WP Job Portal <= 2.2.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Email Sending

2025-01-31 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.2.7

Affected PluginWP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website

Affected Version<= 2.2.6

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-13371

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Vulnerability Overview

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary emails sending due to a missing capability check on the sendEmailToJobSeeker() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send arbitrary emails with arbitrary content from the sites mail server.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.2.7, 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-2024-13371 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a84a4c56-a44e-450d-91fc-024f8ddeedee

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

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

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