What is CVE-2025-59525?

CVE-2025-59525 is a vulnerability in Horilla-opensource Horilla, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2025-09-24.

Is CVE-2025-59525 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Horilla-opensource Horilla

CVE-2025-59525

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 JavaScri…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.000 (11.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Horilla-opensource Horilla — versions < 1.4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

https://github.com/horilla-opensource/horilla/security/advisories/GHSA-rp5m-vpqr-vpvp (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/Mmo-kali/CVE/blob/main/CVE-2025-59525/2025-08-Horilla_Vulnerability_2.pdf (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/horilla-opensource/horilla/releases/tag/1.4.0 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-59525?: CVE-2025-59525 is a vulnerability in Horilla-opensource Horilla, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2025-09-24.
Is CVE-2025-59525 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.