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JobSearch < 3.0.6 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference

CVE-2025-49978Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <3.0.6Update to 3.0.6 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

JobSearch WP Job Board wp-jobsearch

  1. Affected< 3.0.6
  2. Patched in3.0.6

Update to 3.0.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.0.6. Version 3.0.6 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 3.0.6, 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 Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh.

The JobSearch WP Job Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and excluding, 3.0.6 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

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

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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 medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. 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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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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