# CVE-2025-1591: SourceCodester Employee Management System Department Page department.php cross site scripting

> Remote attackers can inject malicious scripts via the Department Name field in the Employee Management System, potentially compromising user sessions.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 24 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jr77-j75c-mjm5

## What is CVE-2025-1591?

CVE-2025-1591 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SourceCodester Employee Management System, published on 23 Feb 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Employee Management System 1.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /department.php of the component Department Page. The manipulation of the argument Department Name leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely.

Weakness: CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code), CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1591?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Razormist Employee Management System.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1591?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1591 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1591 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1591 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SourceCodester Employee Management System

- [CVE-2024-1876](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1876/): SourceCodester Employee Management System psubmit.php sql injection (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2024-1877](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1877/): SourceCodester Employee Management System cancel.php sql injection (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2024-1878](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1878/): SourceCodester Employee Management System myprofile.php sql injection (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2024-1007](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1007/): SourceCodester Employee Management System edit_profile.php sql injection (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2020-29215](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-29215/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1591 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1591 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SourceCodester Employee Management System, published on 23 Feb 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1591 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SourceCodester Employee Management System. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1591/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1591/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1591
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1591
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1591

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.