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CVE-2024-43931 (GCVE-0-2024-43931)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-29 15:04 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:10
VLAI
Title
WordPress JobSearch WP Job Board WordPress Plugin plugin <= 2.5.3 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability
Summary
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in eyecix JobSearch allows Object Injection.This issue affects JobSearch: from n/a through 2.5.3.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-29 15:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
eyecix JobSearch Affected: n/a , ≤ 2.5.3 (custom)
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eyecix jobsearch_wp_job_board Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.5.3 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:eyecix:jobsearch_wp_job_board:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
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Credits
Ananda Dhakal (Patchstack)
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