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WP JobHunt <= 7.1 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Email Update/Account Takeover

CVE-2024-11285Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤7.1No patch available

What to do until a fix ships
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

WP JobHunt wp-jobhunt

  1. Affected≤ 7.1
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run ≤ 7.1. No fixed version has been released.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP JobHunt.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP JobHunt to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tonn.

The WP JobHunt plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 7.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email via the account_settings_callback() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in WP JobHunt

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.6Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Candidate+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'status'
≤7.7No patch available
CVE-2025-7782
Medium4.3Authenticated (Candidate+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤7.7No patch available
CVE-2025-7733
Medium6.4Authenticated (Candidate+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘cs_job_title’
≤7.6Update to 7.7
CVE-2025-7781
Medium5.4WP JobHunt <= 7.6 Authenticated (Custom+) Authorization Bypass
≤7.6Update to 7.7
CVE-2025-7374
High8.1Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Account Deletion
≤7.2No patch available
CVE-2025-6585

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  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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