Arbitrary User Deletion Vulnerability in WP Human Resource Management Plugin by WordPress
CVE-2025-5956

8.1HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
WP Human Resource Management
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 July 2025

What is CVE-2025-5956?

The WP Human Resource Management plugin suffers from a significant vulnerability that allows authenticated users, with Employee-level access or higher, to delete any user account, including administrators. This occurs due to insufficient authorization checks in the ajax_delete_employee() function, where user IDs supplied through the $_POST['delete'] array are directly passed to the wp_delete_user() function without proper validation of the caller's permissions. This vulnerability can lead to unauthorized modification or deletion of user accounts, posing a substantial risk to site security.

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Affected Version(s)

WP Human Resource Management 2.0.0 <= 2.2.17

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.1...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.1
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

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