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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-13425
CVE-2024-13425:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-13425) was discovered with an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 2.2.6. The vulnerability was disclosed on February 1, 2025, and was identified by Wordfence security researchers (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in the enforcedelete() function due to missing validation on a user-controlled key. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) (NVD).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Employer-level access and above to delete other users' companies within the WP Job Portal system (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
A patch has been released in version 2.2.7 of the WP Job Portal plugin. Users are advised to update to this latest version to mitigate the vulnerability (WordPress Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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