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CVE-2025-5953

WP Human Resource Management 2.0.0 - 2.2.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Employee+) Privilege Escalation via wp_ajax_hrm_insert_employee AJAX Action

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.
Mögliche Gegenmaßnahme
WP Human Resource Management: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Weitere Schwachstelleninformationen
SystemWordPress Plugin
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Produkt WP Human Resource Management
Version 2.0.0-2.2.17
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Mishubd ≫ Wp Human Resource Management SwPlatformwordpress Version >= 2.0.0 <= 2.2.17
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.08% 0.239
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
security@wordfence.com 8.8 2.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-862 Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.