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Jobmonster — Job Board WordPress Theme <= 4.8.1 - Authentication Bypass

CVE-2025-5397Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.8.1Update to 4.8.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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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-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Noo JobMonster noo-jobmonster

  1. Affected≤ 4.8.1
  2. Patched in4.8.2

Update to 4.8.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.8.1. Version 4.8.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Noo JobMonster.
  • 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. Update to version 4.8.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Noo JobMonster to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Noo JobMonster theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.1. This is due to the check_login() function not properly verifying a user's identity prior to successfully authenticating them This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass standard authentication and access administrative user accounts. Please note social login needs to be enabled in order for a site to be impacted by this vulnerability.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Noo JobMonster

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.8.5Update to 4.8.5.1
CVE-2026-57368
High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
<4.8.4Update to 4.8.4
CVE-2026-25340
High7.5Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion
≤4.8.2Update to 4.8.3
CVE-2025-67522
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.7.8Update to 4.7.9
CVE-2025-54737
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.8.0Update to 4.8.1
CVE-2025-57887

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  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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