Job Board Manager for WordPress <= 1.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-49322
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 15, 2024
Last Updated October 18, 2024
Researcher João Pedro Soares de Alcântara
Description

The Job Board Manager for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting access to what roles a user can update in the update_user_data() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug jemployee (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0
Patched Version
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