Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme <= 2.1.6.1 - Authentication Bypass
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.1.6.3
- Affected Theme
- Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 2.1.6.1- CVSS
- 5.6Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
- CVE
CVE-2024-13772
At a glance
CVE-2024-13772 is a medium-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in the Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 2.1.6.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.6 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.1.6.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.
Vulnerability Overview
The Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6.1. This is due to a lack of password randomization and user validation through the fb_ajax_login_or_register and google_ajax_login_or_register actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user as long as they have access to the email.
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-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Reaching this weakness in Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme <= 2.1.6.1 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 Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme the fix is 2.1.6.3: builds <= 2.1.6.1 are affected, anything from 2.1.6.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.1.6.3, 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: Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme 2.1.6.3 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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