CVE-2025-5953 Information

Jul 05, 2025 cve

Description

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 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8

CNNVD-202507-372 (Published: 2025-07-04)

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