CVE-2025-59525 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-59525

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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

horilla-opensource

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Affected Software

horilla
Vulnerable Versions:
< 1.4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 24th, 2025
Last Modified: October 15th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79 CWE-434

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise
Initial Access
T1059.007 JavaScript
Execution
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
Collection
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
Exfiltration
T1491.001 Defacement
Impact
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1505.003 Web Shell
Persistence
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact