# Job Postings <= 2.8.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Job Post Duplication

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1057
- **Plugin:** Job Postings (`job-postings`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/job-postings/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.8.3
- **Fixed in:** 2.8.3 (Update to 2.8.3 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions None seen (as of 2026-10-16)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/job-postings
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-15
- **Published:** 2026-10-16
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1057/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1057/

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