Vulnerability · Published Sep 25, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

Critical 9.9

In plain English

A critical-severity cross-site scripting in horilla from horilla-opensource. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.9Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
horilla-opensource	horilla	< 1.4.0

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

References

https://github.com/horilla-opensource/horilla/security/advisories/GHSA-8x78-6q9g-hv2h x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/Mmo-kali/CVE/blob/main/CVE-2025-59832/2025-08-Horilla_Vulnerability_1.pdf x_refsource_MISC