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CVE-2024-11712: WP Job Portal <= 2.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Resume Download

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-359

Description

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the getResumeFileDownloadById() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download other users resumes.

Affected products

• wpjobportal WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website: before 2.2.3 — fixed in 2.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpjobportal WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website 2.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gist.github.com/g1-nhantv/245d2829c1b489f61c9124086506b6b8
• https://gist.github.com/g1-nhantv/7a26a9681eb3413d8be9323fb151fdcd
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3202327/wp-job-portal/tags/2.2.3/modules/resume/model.php?old=3187129&old_path=wp-job-portal%2Ftags%2F2.2.2%2Fmodules%2Fresume%2Fmodel.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ecc87d5f-dba4-40f8-946f-f2634614b579?source=cve

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