WP Job Portal <= 2.4.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-14293
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published December 11, 2025
Last Updated February 14, 2026
Researcher Long Nguyen
Description

The WP Job Portal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.0 via the 'downloadCustomUploadedFile' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-job-portal (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.0
Patched Version
  • 2.4.1
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