WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WPJobBoard < 5.6.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

"An attacker can submit malicious javascript code (persistent XSS) on some fields of 'add job' form (in frontend). Then, when an admin want to edit (or delete) this job in control page, the malicious payload will be executed."

Edit (WPScanTeam)
February 26th, 2020 - Vendor contacted via their page (https://wpjobboard.net/contact/)
March 5th, 2020 - No response from vendor, disclosing as issue is already public
May 21st, 2020 - v5.6.0 released

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.6.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Mohamad Pishdar (cert.ikiu.ac.ir)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2020-02-26 (about 6 years ago)
Added
2020-03-05 (about 6 years ago)
Last Updated
2020-11-23 (about 5 years ago)

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