# WP Job Manager <= 2.4.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Company Name, Tagline and Location Fields

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2689
- **Plugin:** WP Job Manager (`wp-job-manager`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.4.10
- **Fixed in:** 2.4.10 (Update to 2.4.10 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-94
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin High, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-11-07)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/wp-job-manager
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-06
- **Published:** 2026-11-07
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2689/

## Description

The WP Job Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via the company name, company tagline and job location fields of the frontend job submission form in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This is due to the plugin printing these fields with their square brackets intact inside the single listing template, which it inserts through the 'the_content' filter before WordPress expands shortcodes. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, on sites that allow guest submissions or account creation during submission, to run arbitrary shortcodes when the listing is viewed after it is published.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2689/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-job-manager/tags/2.4.10/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2689/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.