easy.jobs <= 2.8.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon' Block Attribute
Impact
The easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'icon' attribute of the easyjobs/job-list Gutenberg block in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Source excerpt · WordfenceAffected packages
Affected products
Vendor version evidence. Product records are separate from automatic dependency matching.
wpdevteam · easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution
Other versions: unaffected
| Version / range | Source status |
|---|---|
| 0 through 2.8.2 (inclusive) | affected |
Original source description
The easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'icon' attribute of the easyjobs/job-list Gutenberg block in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
- Security advisory www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9314454b-c790-44a5-90bb-1c38bd75b23f
- Source reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.0/public/partials-blocks/default/list.php
- Source reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.2/public/partials-blocks/default/list.php
- Source reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.2/blocks/includes/class-scripts.php
- Source reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.2/includes/class-easyjobs-helper.php
- Source reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.0/blocks/includes/class-scripts.php
- Source reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.0/includes/class-easyjobs-helper.php
- Patch plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3745995/easyjobs/trunk/public/partials-blocks/default/list.php