CVE-2024-12824

CRITICAL NUCLEI

Nokri - Job Board WordPress Theme <1.6.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2024-12824 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

The Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.2. This is due to the plugin not properly checking for an empty token value prior updating their details like password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Nuclei Templates (1)

Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme <= 1.6.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Change
CRITICALVERIFIEDby iamnoooob,rootxharsh,pdresearch

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0216
EPSS Percentile 79.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-620
Status published
Products (1)
scriptsbundle/Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme < 1.6.2
Published Mar 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026