CVE-2025-5956 Information

Jul 05, 2025 cve

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L48 https://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developers https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/28cf0f3f-0048-4da9-aa86-243479f7b974?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5

CNNVD-202507-333 (Published: 2025-07-03)

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