Missing authorization in Crew HRM Employee, Leave and Recruitment Management System…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-9237
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qjph-9jxc-9pcm
References
Other 7
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be30e951-7c8d-4baf-9288-0d12dacc0dc2?source=cve
- 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/Setup/Dispatcher.php#L123
- 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#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3556031%40hr-management&new=3556031%40hr-management
More Crew HRM vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-28905 WordPress Crew HRM plugin <= 1.1.1 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-9237 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-9237 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qjph-9jxc-9pcm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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