CVE-2025-5956HIGH 8.1EPSS p20.8%

CVE-2025-5956CVE-2025-5956

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.

Scoring

CVSS 3.18.1 (HIGH)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.29% probability of exploitation · percentile 20.8% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z
Published2025-07-04
Last modified2025-08-13

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-862

References

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

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessMissing Authorizationcwe-8620%live

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