Stored cross-site scripting in easy.jobs plugin via cover_letter
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The easy.jobs WordPress plugin in all versions up to and including 2.8.4 does not sanitize or escape the cover_letter parameter, which enables stored cross-site scripting (CWE-79). An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject scripts that run when a user opens an injected page. Execution requires an administrator to open a candidate's Application tab and click an attacker-crafted link.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-31
Description from the CNA
The easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cover_letter' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Successful execution requires an administrator to open the affected candidate's Application tab and click the attacker-crafted link, at which point WHATWG URL parsing collapses the encoded scheme back to javascript: and executes the payload.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wpdevteam | easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution | up to 2.8.4 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- easy.jobs – AI powered Job Listing, Job Board, Career Page, Recruitment & Hiring Solution Vendorwpdevteam Affected up to 2.8.4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for easy.jobs.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-31
Timeline
- 2026-10-30 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-112365
- 2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-30 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-30 Alias added: GHSA-wfm8-84j7-5644
References
Other 11
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bff1af96-c60e-4c1e-a793-31cd23ec635e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.3/admin/react/src/components/Candidate/Details/Tabs/Application.js#L100
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.3/admin/react/src/components/Messages/sanitize.js#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.3/admin/react/src/components/Messages/sanitize.js#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.4/admin/react/src/components/Messages/sanitize.js#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.4/admin/react/src/components/Candidate/Details/Tabs/Application.js#L100
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.4/admin/react/src/components/Messages/sanitize.js#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.4/admin/includes/class-easyjobs-admin-candidates.php#L226
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easyjobs/tags/2.8.3/admin/includes/class-easyjobs-admin-candidates.php#L226
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3768199%40easyjobs%2Ftrunk%2Fadmin%2Freact%2Fsrc%2Fcomponents%2FMessages%2Fsanitize.js&old=3754233%40easyjobs%2Ftrunk%2Fadmin%2Freact%2Fsrc%2Fcomponents%2FMessages%2Fsanitize.js&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3768199/easyjobs/trunk/admin/react/src/components/Candidate/Details/Tabs/Application.js
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Sources
- CVE-2026-112365 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-112365 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wfm8-84j7-5644 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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