CVE-2026-9237 Missing authorization in Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System – Crew HRM
Authenticated subscribers can delete or modify arbitrary job listings due to missing authorization checks in the Crew HRM WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-9237?
CVE-2026-9237 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in crewhrm Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System – Crew HRM, published on 9 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-9237?
How do I fix CVE-2026-9237?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-9237 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-9237 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9237 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qjph-9jxc-9pcm.