Horrila Stored XSS Vulnerability via Ticket Comment section

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.9.

Weakness

• CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• horilla-opensource · horilla

  • affected < 1.4.0

References (2)

• https://github.com/horilla-opensource/horilla/security/advisories/GHSA-8x78-6q9g-hv2h (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
• https://github.com/Mmo-kali/CVE/blob/main/CVE-2025-59832/2025-08-Horilla_Vulnerability_1.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-59832](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-59832.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-59832)

Record last updated 25 Sept 2025, 15:48 UTC.