CVE-2025-59832: Horilla

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Horilla Horilla: before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)

Published 2025-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.