crewhrm Crew HRM Plugin up to 1.2.2 Dispatcher Dispatcher::dispatch job_id authorization

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in crewhrm Crew HRM Plugin up to 1.2.2. The affected element is the function Dispatcher::dispatch of the component Dispatcher. The manipulation of the argument job_id results in authorization. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-9237. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in crewhrm Crew HRM Plugin up to 1.2.2. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function Dispatcher::dispatch of the component Dispatcher. The manipulation of the argument job_id with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System – Crew HRM plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete, archive, unarchive, and duplicate arbitrary job listings — along with their associated stages, meta, addresses, and applications — by supplying an arbitrary integer job_id. The nonce verified by Dispatcher::dispatch() is exposed to all authenticated front-end visitors via wp_head script localization, meaning subscribers can trivially obtain it and satisfy the nonce check without possessing any elevated privilege.

The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-9237 since 05/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/09/2026).

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-2026-42566). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• crewhrm

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• Crew HRM Plugin

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• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2

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