WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Jobs for WordPress < 2.7.15 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
job-postings
Fixed in 2.7.15

References

CVE
CVE-2025-50050
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/job-postings/vulnerability/wordpress-jobs-for-wordpress-plugin-2-7-12-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
yuhda
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
abbebefe-6b03-46d2-afcd-50228b59842a

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-06-19 (about 10 months ago)
Added
2025-06-25 (about 10 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-07-25 (about 9 months ago)

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