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CVE-2024-11715: WP Job Portal <= 2.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Limited Privilege Escalation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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-862

Description

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the assignUserRole() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an employer.

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/tvnnn/9b706643c5f88989c98815be8b101e11
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3202327/wp-job-portal/tags/2.2.3/modules/user/controller.php?old=3187129&old_path=wp-job-portal%2Ftags%2F2.2.2%2Fmodules%2Fuser%2Fcontroller.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4107199d-e3c7-4379-b39d-1868de7d777b?source=cve

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