CVE-2025-7782 (GCVE-0-2025-7782)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-20 13:47 – Updated: 2025-12-20 13:47
VLAI?
Title
WP JobHunt <= 7.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Candidate+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'status'
Summary
The WP JobHunt plugin for WordPress, used by the JobCareer theme, is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'cs_update_application_status_callback' function in all versions up to, and including, 7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Candidate-level access and above, to inject cross-site scripting into the 'status' parameter of applied jobs for any user.
Severity ?
7.6 (High)
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | WP JobHunt |
Affected:
* , ≤ 7.7
(semver)
|
Credits
meghnine islem
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Sightings
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