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Civi — Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme <= 2.1.6.1 - Authentication Bypass

CVE-2024-13772Published Mar 13, 2025 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Affected: ≤2.1.6.1Update to 2.1.6.3 or newer

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Medium5.6CVSS 3.15.6CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed

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Overview

Advisory ID: CVE-2024-13772
Product: Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme civi
Affected: ≤2.1.6.1
Fixed in: 2.1.6.3
Weakness: CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Required access: No account needed
Published: Mar 13, 2025 · updated Nov 13, 2026
Credit: Lucio Sá
Source: Wordfence Intelligence

Affected≤ 2.1.6.1
Patched in2.1.6.3

5.6

CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

What does this vector mean?

AV:N Attack vector: Network
AC:H Attack complexity: High
PR:N Privileges required: None
UI:N User interaction: None
S:U Scope: Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality: Low
I:L Integrity: Low
A:L Availability: Low

The Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6.1. This is due to a lack of password randomization and user validation through the fb_ajax_login_or_register and google_ajax_login_or_register actions.

This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user as long as they have access to the email.

Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.

Remediation & mitigations

Update to version 2.1.6.3, or a newer patched version
Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.

References & provenance

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

Advisorywordfence.com

Timeline

Mar 13, 2025
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.6
Nov 13, 2026
Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record

Vulnerability data: Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.

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