CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-2720
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Hr Press Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of sensitive employee data due to a missing capability check on the `hrp-fetch-employees` AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve sensitive employee information including names, email addresses, phone numbers, salary/pay rates, employment dates, and employment status.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-press-lite/tags/1.0.2/admin/admin.php#L36 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-press-lite/tags/1.0.2/includes/HRP_Action.php#L1444 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-press-lite/trunk/admin/admin.php#L36 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hr-press-lite/trunk/includes/HRP_Action.php#L1444 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d2a63b8e-e16e-4702-be1b-acc5c3e74b22?source=cve www.wordfence.com