A vulnerability has been found in WP-jobhunt Plugin up to 2.4 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function cs_employer_ajax_profile of the file admin-ajax.php of the component AJAX Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The WP-jobhunt plugin before version 2.4 for WordPress does not control AJAX requests sent to the cs_employer_ajax_profile() function through the admin-ajax.php file, which allows remote unauthenticated attackers to enumerate information about users.

The weakness was disclosed 03/21/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-19487 since 11/23/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:admin-ajax.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry VDB-131918 is pretty similar.

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