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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-12132
CVE-2024-12132:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress contains an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability (CVE-2024-12132) affecting all versions up to and including 2.2.4. The vulnerability was disclosed on January 3, 2025 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from missing validation on a user-controlled key in the WP Job Portal plugin. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The weakness has been classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) (NVD).
Impact
This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to create jobs for companies that are unaffiliated with the attacker, potentially compromising the integrity of the job posting system (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to version 2.2.5 or later of the WP Job Portal plugin which contains the fix for this vulnerability (WordPress Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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