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CVE-2025-5956

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.

Published

2025-07-04T03:15:21.747

Last Modified

2025-08-13T19:29:30.883

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-862

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mishubd	wp_human_resource_management	≤ 2.2.17	Yes

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L48 Product ([email protected])
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developers Release Notes ([email protected])
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/28cf0f3f-0048-4da9-aa86-243479f7b974?source=cve Third Party Advisory ([email protected])