CVE 7.7 HIGH

Horilla Stored XSS Vulnerability via File Upload in Reimbursement Panel_CVE-2025-59524

7.7 / 10
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

Description

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). Prior to version 1.4.0, the file upload flow performs validation only in the browser and does not enforce server-side checks. An attacker can bypass the client-side validation (for example, with an intercepting proxy or by submitting a crafted request) to store an executable HTML document on the server. When an administrator or other privileged user views the uploaded file, the embedded script runs in their context and sends session cookies (or other credentials) to an attacker-controlled endpoint. The attacker then reuses those credentials to impersonate the admin. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-59524
Source GitHub_M
Published Sep 24, 2025 at 18:12
Modified Sep 24, 2025 at 18:46

Affected Product

Vendor horilla-opensource
Product horilla
Version < 1.4.0
Affected Versions horilla-opensource horilla < 1.4.0

CWE Classification

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