CVE-2025-48867: Horilla Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Project and Task Modules

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Horilla HRM 1.3.0 allows authenticated admin or privileged users to inject malicious JavaScript payloads into multiple fields in the Project and Task modules. These payloads persist in the database and are executed when viewed by an admin or other privileged users through the web interface. Although the issue is not exploitable by unauthenticated users, it still poses a high risk of session hijacking and unauthorized action within high-privilege accounts. At time of publication there is no known patch.

Affected products

horilla-opensource horilla: 1.3

References

https://github.com/horilla-opensource/horilla/security/advisories/GHSA-w242-xv47-j55r

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