CVE-2018-19488 describes a critical vulnerability in the WP-jobhunt plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 2.4. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to reset user account passwords by exploiting uncontrolled AJAX requests to the cs_reset_pass() function via admin-ajax.php. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wp-jobhunt_project:wp-jobhunt:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.