Job Postings <= 2.8.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Job Post Duplication
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1057
- Plugin
- Job Postings (job-postings)
- Affected
- all versions before 2.8.3
- Remediation
- Update to 2.8.3 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions None seen among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-16
- Attack surface
- Job Postings on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Job Postings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization via the job duplication action (jobs_duplicate_post_as_draft) in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2. This is due to a missing per-post capability check in the duplicate_post_as_draft() function and a nonce that is not tied to a specific post. Any user with the edit_posts capability gets that nonce from the Duplicate link. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to duplicate any job post into a draft they own. This includes other users' private, draft or password-protected jobs, so the attacker can read the original job's content, post meta and post password.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1057/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/job-postings/tags/2.8.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/job-postings/
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