CVE-2026-40865: Horilla-Opensource Horilla

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). In 1.5.0, an insecure direct object reference in the employee document viewer allows any authenticated user to access other employees’ uploaded documents by changing the document ID in the request. This exposes sensitive HR files such as identity documents, contracts, certificates, and other private employee records.

Affected products

• Horilla-Opensource Horilla: version 1.5.0 only

Published 2026-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.