WP Human Resource Management, CVE-2025-5953
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- Published on
- Jul 04, 2025
- Research Description
- The WP Human Resource Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization in the ajax_insert_employee() and update_empoyee() functions in versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.17. The AJAX handler reads the client-supplied $_POST['role'] and, after basic cleaning via hrm_clean(), passes it directly to wp_insert_user() and later to $user->set_role() without verifying that the current user is allowed to assign that role. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Employee-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to administrator.
- Affected versions
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Min 2.0.0, max 2.2.17.
- Status
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vulnerable
Previous vulnerability researches |
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WP Blog and Widgets (CVE-2022-4824) , Jun 07, 2024 |