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CVE-2026-116546: WP Job Portal <= 2.7.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'degreetitle' Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-31 · updated 2026-11-01
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'degreetitle' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The plugin's self-registration flow allows any visitor to create a Subscriber-backed Employer account, meaning this vulnerability is effectively exploitable by any user who can register on the site.

Affected products

• wpjobportal WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website: through 2.7.0

References

• https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-job-portal.2.7.1.zip
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/tags/2.7.0/modules/job/controller.php#L441
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/tags/2.7.0/modules/job/model.php#L1008
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/tags/2.7.0/modules/job/model.php#L3728
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/tags/2.7.0/modules/job/model.php#L3762
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/tags/2.7.0/modules/job/model.php#L3824
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-job-portal/tags/2.7.0/wp-job-portal.php#L1786
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45bc4b00-1b5e-4c2e-96c7-77e03b86be5c?source=cve

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