apusthemes WP Job Board Pro Plugin up to 1.2.76 on WordPress privileges assignment

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A vulnerability has been found in apusthemes WP Job Board Pro Plugin up to 1.2.76 on WordPress and classified as very critical. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in privileges assignment. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-12213. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in apusthemes WP Job Board Pro Plugin up to 1.2.76 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges assignment vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-266. A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WP Job Board Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.76. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to supply the 'role' field when registering. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator on vulnerable sites.

The weakness was presented by Friderika Baranyai. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-12213 since 12/04/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/12/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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

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Type

• Forum Software

Vendor

• apusthemes

Name

• WP Job Board Pro Plugin

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.2.14
• 1.2.15
• 1.2.16
• 1.2.17
• 1.2.18
• 1.2.19
• 1.2.20
• 1.2.21
• 1.2.22
• 1.2.23
• 1.2.24
• 1.2.25
• 1.2.26
• 1.2.27
• 1.2.28
• 1.2.29
• 1.2.30
• 1.2.31
• 1.2.32
• 1.2.33
• 1.2.34
• 1.2.35
• 1.2.36
• 1.2.37
• 1.2.38
• 1.2.39
• 1.2.40
• 1.2.41
• 1.2.42
• 1.2.43
• 1.2.44
• 1.2.45
• 1.2.46
• 1.2.47
• 1.2.48
• 1.2.49
• 1.2.50
• 1.2.51
• 1.2.52
• 1.2.53
• 1.2.54
• 1.2.55
• 1.2.56
• 1.2.57
• 1.2.58
• 1.2.59
• 1.2.60
• 1.2.61
• 1.2.62
• 1.2.63
• 1.2.64
• 1.2.65
• 1.2.66
• 1.2.67
• 1.2.68
• 1.2.69
• 1.2.70
• 1.2.71
• 1.2.72
• 1.2.73
• 1.2.74
• 1.2.75
• 1.2.76

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