CVE-2024-11925

WP JobSearch <= 2.6.7 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

2024-11-27 19:13
Tonn

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.6.8
Affected Plugin
JobSearch WP Job Board
Affected Version
<= 2.6.7
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE
CVE-2024-11925
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At a glance

CVE-2024-11925 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in the JobSearch WP Job Board WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.7. 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 2.6.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by Tonn.

Vulnerability Overview

The JobSearch WP Job Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a users identity when verifying an email address through the user_account_activation function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including site administrators if the users email is known.

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-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Reaching this weakness in JobSearch WP Job Board <= 2.6.7 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authentication bypass through an alternate path means the application has a second route to a protected action that skips the checks the primary route performs.

The protection on the main path becomes irrelevant, because the attacker simply uses the route that never asks. For JobSearch WP Job Board the fix is 2.6.8: builds <= 2.6.7 are affected, anything from 2.6.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.6.8, 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: JobSearch WP Job Board 2.6.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11925https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/04bc8101-2676-4695-a498-f79be8221617https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11925

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