CVE-2025-59832 CRITICAL

CVE-2025-59832: Horrila Stored XSS Vulnerability via Ticket Comment section

Vendor Horilla-Opensource
Product horilla
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published September 25, 2025
Last update September 25, 2025

CVSS base score

9.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). Prior to version 1.4.0, there is a stored XSS vulnerability in the ticket comment editor. A low-privilege authenticated user could run arbitrary JavaScript in an admin’s browser, exfiltrate the admin’s cookies/CSRF token, and hijack their session. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 25, 2025 CVE published
September 25, 2025 Record updated