# CVE-2024-0820: Jobs for WordPress < 2.7.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

> Contributors can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized parameters, allowing stored XSS attacks against other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mv3g-77hg-5wrg

## What is CVE-2024-0820?

CVE-2024-0820 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Jobs for WordPress, published on 18 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Jobs for WordPress plugin before 2.7.4 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0820?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Blueglass Jobs for Wordpress.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-0820?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0820 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-0820 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0820 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Jobs for WordPress

- [CVE-2024-32149](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32149/): WordPress Jobs for WordPress plugin <= 2.7.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2022-44743](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44743/): WordPress Jobs for WordPress Plugin <= 2.5.11.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-2833](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2833/): Jobs for WordPress <= 2.7.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via job-search (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-10105](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10105/): Jobs for WordPress < 2.7.11 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2024-10104](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10104/): Jobs for WordPress < 2.7.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-0820 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-0820 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Jobs for WordPress, published on 18 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0820 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Jobs for WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0820/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0820/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0820
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0820
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-0820

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0820/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.