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JobSearch WP Job Board <= 1.8.1 — Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update

CVE-2021-4361Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.8.1Update to 1.8.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

JobSearch WP Job Board wp-jobsearch

  1. Affected≤ 1.8.1
  2. Patched in1.8.2

Update to 1.8.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.8.1. Version 1.8.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under JobSearch WP Job Board.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.8.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch JobSearch WP Job Board to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jerome Bruandet.

The JobSearch WP Job Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the jobsearch_job_integrations_settin_save AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the site.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in JobSearch WP Job Board

All 35
More vulnerabilities in JobSearch WP Job Board
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤3.2.0No patch available
CVE-2026-84834
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.9Update to 3.3.0
CVE-2026-57383
High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤3.2.9Update to 3.3.0
CVE-2026-54186
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤3.2.7Update to 3.2.8
CVE-2026-49057
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.0Update to 3.2.2
CVE-2026-32493

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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