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FKIE_CVE-2025-5956

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-04 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:49
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
The WP Human Resource Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary User Deletion due to a missing authorization within the ajax_delete_employee() function in versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.17. The plugin’s deletion handler reads the client-supplied $_POST['delete'] array and passes each ID directly to wp_delete_user() without verifying that the caller has the delete_users capability or limiting which user IDs may be removed. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Employee-level access and above, to delete arbitrary accounts, including administrators.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L48Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developersRelease Notes
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/28cf0f3f-0048-4da9-aa86-243479f7b974?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mishubd wp_human_resource_management *
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