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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Employee-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to administrator.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00442,"percentile":0.38652,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2025-07-04T01:44:03Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:49:05Z","products":[{"vendor":"asaquzzaman","product":"wp human resource management"},{"vendor":"mishubd","product":"wp_human_resource_management"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ba33a18-429f-4a3e-b018-bdfbbe6e8482?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developers","tags":["Release Notes"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L89","tags":["Product"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L543","tags":["Product"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L591","tags":["Product"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5953"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vcvq-g63r-9f2v"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-5953","title":"WP Human Resource Management 2.0.0 - 2.2.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Employee+) Privilege Escalation via wp_ajax_hrm_insert_employee AJAX Action","description":"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. 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