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CVE-2024-13429: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-13429) contains an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 2.2.6. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence on January 31, 2025 (Wordfence Intel).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the 'jobenforcedelete' functionality due to missing validation on a user-controlled key. The issue has been classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key). The vulnerability has received 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 (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with employer-level access and above to delete arbitrary content within the system. This could lead to unauthorized deletion of job-related content and potential disruption of the job portal's functionality (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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