Access violation vulnerability in WP Human Resource Management 2.2.17

The WP Human Resource Management plugin for WordPress has a security issue that allows people to gain higher privileges than they should have. This happens because the plugin doesn’t check if the user is allowed to have a certain role before assigning it. This means that someone with Employee-level access or higher can make themselves an administrator.

Detected in:

WP Human Resource Management open vulnerable versions: >= 2.0.0 <= 2.2.17

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