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FKIE_CVE-2025-5953

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-04 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:49
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L543Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L591Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L89Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developersRelease Notes
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ba33a18-429f-4a3e-b018-bdfbbe6e8482?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mishubd wp_human_resource_management *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T09:49:05.650",
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