Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| asaquzzaman / WP Human Resource Management | affected 2.0.0 through 2.2.17 |
CWE
CWE-862
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ba33a18-429f-4a3e-b018-bdfbbe6e8482?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/hrm/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L89
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L543
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hrm/tags/2.2.17/class/employee.php#L591
ADP enrichment
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