Description

The Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.4. This is due to a lack of user validation before changing a password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the password of arbitrary users, including administrators, if the attacker knows the username of the victim.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13771

CVSS Base Severity: CRITICAL

CVSS Base Score: 9.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: uxper

Product: Civi - Job Board & Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 15.15% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-12 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13771
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5ab2c74d-b83b-40ea-951c-83aeb76a7515?source=cve
http://localhost:1337/wp-content/themes/civi/includes/class-ajax.php#L715

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