Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System <= 1.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Job Deletion via crewhrm_singleJobAction AJAX Action
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.3
- Affected Plugin
- Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System – Crew HRM
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.2- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2026-9237
At a glance
CVE-2026-9237 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.2. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2026, reported by Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan).
Vulnerability Overview
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.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System <= 1.2.2 carries this weakness at dispatch(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System the fix is 1.2.3: builds <= 1.2.2 are affected, anything from 1.2.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System 1.2.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
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External References
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