CVE-2025-59525 HIGH

CVE-2025-59525: Horilla has Improper Input Sanitization Leading to XSS and Admin Account Takeover

Vendor Horilla-Opensource
Product horilla
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published September 24, 2025
Last update October 15, 2025
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CVSS base score

7.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 24, 2025 CVE published
October 15, 2025 Record updated