CVE-2025-5953: Mishubd Wp Human Resource Management

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mishubd Wp Human Resource Management: from 2.0.0, up to and including 2.2.17

Published 2025-07-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.