WP Human Resource Management Plugin up to 2.2.17 on WordPress ajax_delete_employee delete authorization

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A vulnerability was found in WP Human Resource Management Plugin up to 2.2.17 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is the function ajax_delete_employee. The manipulation of the argument delete leads to authorization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-5956. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in WP Human Resource Management Plugin up to 2.2.17 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function ajax_delete_employee. The manipulation of the argument delete with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-5956 since 06/09/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/14/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-19923). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WP Human Resource Management Plugin

Version

• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.2.4
• 2.2.5
• 2.2.6
• 2.2.7
• 2.2.8
• 2.2.9
• 2.2.10
• 2.2.11
• 2.2.12
• 2.2.13
• 2.2.14
• 2.2.15
• 2.2.16
• 2.2.17

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