Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.5.2.9
- Affected Theme
- Noo JobMonster
- Affected Version
< 4.5.2.9- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2022-1170
At a glance
CVE-2022-1170 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Noo JobMonster WordPress theme, affecting versions < 4.5.2.9. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.5.2.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2019, reported by Daniel Ruf.
Vulnerability Overview
In the Noo JobMonster WordPress theme before 4.5.2.9 JobMonster there is a XSS vulnerability as the input for the search form is provided through unsanitized GET requests.
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.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Noo JobMonster < 4.5.2.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Noo JobMonster the fix is 4.5.2.9: builds < 4.5.2.9 are affected, anything from 4.5.2.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.5.2.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Noo JobMonster: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Noo JobMonster 4.5.2.9 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Same weakness class
- 6.4CVE-2025-57887: Jobmonster <= 4.8.0 Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2025-57887 - 6.1CVE-2026-57368: Noo JobMonster <= 4.8.5 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2026-57368 - 6.1CVE-2025-54737: Jobmonster <= 4.7.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2025-54737 - 6.1CVE-2025-53201: Jobmonster <= 4.7.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2025-53201
Other vulnerabilities in Noo JobMonster
- 9.8CVE-2025-5397: Jobmonster - Job Board… Authentication Bypass
CVE-2025-5397 - 9.8CVE-2025-54738: Jobmonster <= 4.7.9 Authentication Bypass
CVE-2025-54738 - 9.8CVE-2024-37927: Jobmonster <= 4.7.5 Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-37927 - 9.1CVE-2024-37928: Jobmonster < 4.7.5 Arbitrary File Deletion
CVE-2024-37928 - 7.5CVE-2026-25340: Noo JobMonster < 4.8.4 SQL Injection
CVE-2026-25340 - 7.5CVE-2025-67522: Jobmonster <= 4.8.2 Local File Inclusion
CVE-2025-67522 - 5.3CVE-2025-57888: Jobmonster <= 4.8.0 Sensitive Information Disclosure
CVE-2025-57888 - 5.3CVE-2022-1166: Noo JobMonster <= 4.6.6 Info Disclosure
CVE-2022-1166
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