WP Job Portal <= 2.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Limited Privilege Escalation

published 2024-12-14 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-34257

cvss: 4.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

wpjobportal wp_job_portal 2.2.3

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3202327/wp-job-portal/tags/2.2.3/modules/user/co… patch

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2024-12-16)

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

wpjobportal WP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website

Classification

Weakness

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-11715
NVD CVE-2024-11715

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary