CVE-2026-9237
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with a low-privilege account. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-862 · Missing authorization
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 4.3
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-management/tags/1.2.2/classes/Controllers/JobManagement.php#L151
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-management/tags/1.2.2/classes/Controllers/JobManagement.php#L29
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-management/tags/1.2.2/classes/Models/User.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-management/tags/1.2.2/classes/Setup/Dispatcher.php#L123
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-management/tags/1.2.2/classes/Setup/Dispatcher.php#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3556031%40hr-management&new=3556031%40hr-management
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be30e951-7c8d-4baf-9288-0d12dacc0dc2?source=cve