CVE-2024-13371

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

2025-01-31 00:00
thevietronin

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.2.7
Affected Plugin
WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website
Affected Version
<= 2.2.6
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-13371
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At a glance

CVE-2024-13371 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the WP Job Portal WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.2.6. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.2.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, 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 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

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.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

WP Job Portal <= 2.2.6 carries this weakness at sendEmailToJobSeeker(), and reaching it takes no account at all. 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 2.2.7: builds <= 2.2.6 are affected, anything from 2.2.7 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.2.7, 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 Portal 2.2.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13371https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a84a4c56-a44e-450d-91fc-024f8ddeedeehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13371

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