CVE-2024-13773

Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme <= 2.1.4 - Sensitive Information Exposure

2025-03-13 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Unpatched
Affected Theme: Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme
Affected Version: <= 2.1.4
CVSS: 7.3High
Weakness type: CWE-321 · Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
CVE: CVE-2024-13773

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At a glance

CVE-2024-13773 is a high-severity Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in the Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 2.1.4. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.4 via hard-coded credentials. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including LinkedIn client and secret keys.

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-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

The product uses a hard-coded, unchangeable cryptographic key.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

No patched version is recorded yet, so there is nothing to update to; WordSec's vulnerability alerts flag this record the moment that changes.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13773 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3499182-7501-4fec-a7c6-b66ae47533cd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13773

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CVSS Vector

7.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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