WP Job Portal <= 2.2.8 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Photo Disconnection

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-13873
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 21, 2025
Last Updated February 22, 2025
Researcher thevietronin
Description

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.8 via the deleteUserPhoto() function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to remove profile photos from users accounts. Please note that this does not officially delete the file.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-job-portal (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.8
Patched Version
  • 2.2.9
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