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CVE-2025-12836: VK Google Job Posting Manager <= 1.2.23 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Job Description Field

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The VK Google Job Posting Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Job Description field in versions up to, and including, 1.2.23 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Vektor,Inc. VK Google Job Posting Manager: through 1.2.23

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vk-google-job-posting-manager/tags/1.2.20/vk-google-job-posting-manager.php#L419
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vk-google-job-posting-manager/tags/1.2.20/vk-google-job-posting-manager.php#L468
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3449302/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e0fd492-19ee-430e-a495-99ad28043bf9?source=cve

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