CVE-2015-2321

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Published 2015-08-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Job Manager plugin 0.7.22 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the email field.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37738 webapps php text · 1 KB

Owais Mehtab · 2015-08-07

WordPress Plugin Job Manager 0.7.22 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Job Manager Persistent XSS

Details
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Product: Job Manager Plugin For Wordpress
Vendor-URL: www.wp-jobmanager.com
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2321


Credits
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Discovered by: Owais Mehtab


Affected Products:
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Job Manager Plugin <= 0.7.22

Description
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"Job Manager Plugin For Wordpress"

More Details
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A persistent Cross site scripting (XSS) in Job Manager Plugin has been discovered,
the plugin's email field was not sanitized thus the vulnerability can be easily 
exploited and can be used to steal cookies,perform phishing attacks and other various 
attacks compromising the security of a user.

Proof of Concept
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Click on the "send through your résume" and set the below vector in email field

'"><img src=x onerror=prompt(document.cookie);>

Now click on initiate chat 

PoC Video
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8cuf15hbdf5tmu/jobmanager-xss.mp4

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
job_manager_project	job_manager	`{"endIncluding":"0.7.22"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.