# CVE-2025-5953: Missing authorization in WP Human Resource Management

> Authenticated employees can escalate privileges to administrator due to missing authorization checks in the WP Human Resource Management plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vcvq-g63r-9f2v

## What is CVE-2025-5953?

CVE-2025-5953 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in asaquzzaman WP Human Resource Management, published on 4 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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. 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.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5953?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mishubd Wp Human Resource Management.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-5953?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5953 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5953 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5953 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in asaquzzaman WP Human Resource Management

- [CVE-2019-9573](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-9573/): Business logic in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2019-9574](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-9574/): Missing authorization in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-5956](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5956/): Missing authorization in WP Human Resource Management (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5953 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5953 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in asaquzzaman WP Human Resource Management, published on 4 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5953 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: asaquzzaman WP Human Resource Management. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5953/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5953/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5953
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5953
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5953

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5953/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.