CVE-2026-6271: Career Section <= 1.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-434

Description

The Career Section plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 via the CV upload handler. This is due to missing file type validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible.

Affected products

shahinurislam Career Section: through 1.7

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3507785/career-section
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3507912/career-section
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3507917/career-section
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/005d1abc-761d-4f9a-bc21-aad63e8efd66?source=cve

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