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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-19487

High
7.5/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published