CVE-2025-59525

Horilla has Improper Input Sanitization Leading to XSS and Admin Account Takeover

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Sep 24, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2025
Reserved: Sep 17, 2025

Description

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). Prior to version 1.4.0, improper sanitization across the application allows XSS via uploaded SVG (and via allowed <embed>), which can be chained to execute JavaScript whenever users view impacted content (e.g., announcements). This can result in admin account takeover. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
horillahorilla-opensource	< 1.4.0Affected

References

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