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CVE-2024-0820: jobs for wordpress vulnerability
CVE-2024-0820: medium vulnerability affecting jobs for wordpress. Check CVSS, KEV status, business impact and recommended administrator actions.
- CVSS
- 5.4 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 37.23%
- Known exploited
- not in KEV
- Product
- jobs for wordpress
What is known
The Jobs for WordPress plugin before 2.7.4 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Business impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-0820, a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) affecting jobs for wordpress, may affect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the vulnerable environment. The exact impact depends on the installed version, exposed interfaces and deployment configuration.
Recommended administrator action
Confirm whether jobs for wordpress is present and compare installed versions with the vendor advisory and NVD record. Apply the vendor patch or documented mitigation; until remediation is complete, reduce exposure of affected interfaces, review relevant logs and monitor for indicators of exploitation. DataHouse can support version verification, managed patching, network exposure reduction, log review and backup validation for dedicated, cloud and colocated environments.