WP Job Board Pro < 1.2.85 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via process_register

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-12213
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 11, 2025
Last Updated January 22, 2026
Researcher Foxyyy
Description

The WP Job Board Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to 2.3.16. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to supply the 'role' field when registering. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator on vulnerable sites. Please note that this may have been patched sooner, however, the oldest available version for us to confirm this is patched in was 1.2.85.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-job-board-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.85
Patched Version
  • 1.2.85
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