WP Human Resource Management 2.0.0 - 2.2.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Employee+) Arbitrary User Deletion via ajax_delete_employee Function

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-5956
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published July 3, 2025
Last Updated July 4, 2025
Researcher kr0d
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hrm (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • 2.0.0 - 2.2.17
Patched Version
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