CVE-2024-49322
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedIncorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in CodePassenger Job Board Manager for WordPress jemployee allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Job Board Manager for WordPress: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceAn Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the jemployee component of the CodePassenger Job Board Manager for WordPress plugin (versions <= 1.0) allows authenticated users to escalate their privileges beyond what their role should permit, likely due to missing or inadequate capability checks before performing privileged actions.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Job Board Manager plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'Job Board Manager' or 'CodePassenger Job Board Manager'. Note the installed version displayed.Affected if The plugin is installed and shows version 1.0 or below.
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Confirm the jemployee component is activeCheck if the plugin includes jemployee functionality - this may appear as a user role, a menu item, or a module labeled 'Employee' or 'jemployee' within the Job Board Manager settings.Affected if The jemployee component exists and is accessible within the WordPress admin dashboard.
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Inspect user role definitions for privilege escalationUse a WordPress user role editor plugin or query the wp_options table for the wp_user_roles option to examine if any custom roles created by Job Board Manager grant elevated capabilities beyond their intended scope.Affected if Custom user roles associated with the plugin grant administrative or high-privilege capabilities to lower-level authenticated users.
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Review capability checks on jemployee actionsIf you have access to the plugin source code, search for current_user_can or capability checks around jemployee-related functions in the plugin files.Affected if Missing or inadequate capability checks are found before privileged operations in the jemployee component.
If Job Board Manager for WordPress version 1.0 or lower is installed with the jemployee component active, authenticated users can likely escalate privileges beyond their assigned role due to missing capability checks.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate to a patched version of Job Board Manager for WordPress if available; otherwise deactivate or remove the plugin until a fix can be applied, as the CVSS 9.8 indicates trivial network exploitation with complete system compromise potential.
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