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High · 7.7 CVE-2025-59525 EUVD-2025-31071

Horilla has Improper Input Sanitization Leading to XSS and Admin Account Takeover

Published Sep 24, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
horilla-opensource horilla < 1.4.0 —

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