CVE-2025-5953

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.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L543	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L591	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L89	Product
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developers	Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ba33a18-429f-4a3e-b018-bdfbbe6e8482?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mishubd:wp_human_resource_management:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-07-04 03:15

Updated : 2025-08-13 19:29

NVD link : CVE-2025-5953

Mitre link : CVE-2025-5953

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5953

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mishubd

wp_human_resource_management

CWE

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

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