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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-5956 EUVD-2025-19923GHSA-vw6r-vcj6-3hf5

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

Published Jul 4, 2025 · Updated Jul 8, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
asaquzzaman WP Human Resource Management 2.0.0 – ≤ 2.2.17 —

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