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.
INFO
Published Date :
2025-07-04T01:44:03.834Z
Last Modified :
2025-07-04T01:44:03.834Z
Source :
Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS
The following products are affected by CVE-2025-5953 vulnerability.
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