CVE-2026-39345

OrangeHRM Affected by Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in Email Template Loader

State: Published
Severity: 4.6 Medium
Published: Apr 7, 2026
Updated: Apr 7, 2026
Reserved: Apr 6, 2026

Description

OrangeHRM is a comprehensive human resource management (HRM) system. From 5.0 to 5.8, OrangeHRM Open Source fails to restrict email template file resolution to the intended plugins directory, allowing an authenticated actor who can influence the template path to read arbitrary local files. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.8.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.6 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
orangehrmorangehrm	>= 5.0, < 5.8.1Affected

References

https://github.com/orangehrm/orangehrm/security/advisories/GHSA-xq24-qv66-9v3m

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