# CVE-2025-1592: SourceCodester Best Employee Management System Add Role Page Role.php cross site scripting

> Remote attackers can inject malicious scripts via the Add Role page, potentially leading to session hijacking or code execution.

- **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-wcmj-7gjh-r5rx

## What is CVE-2025-1592?

CVE-2025-1592 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SourceCodester Best 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 Best Employee Management System 1.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin/Operations/Role.php of the component Add Role Page. The manipulation of the argument assign_name/description leads to cross site scripting. The attack may 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-2025-1592?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mayurik Best Employee Management System.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1592?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1592 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1592 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1592 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SourceCodester Best Employee Management System

- [CVE-2025-0802](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0802/): SourceCodester Best Employee Management System Administrative Endpoint View_user.php access control (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-44185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44185/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2025-44186](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44186/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2025-2046](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2046/): SourceCodester Best Employee Management System print1.php sql injection (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-1606](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1606/): SourceCodester Best Employee Management System backups.php information disclosure (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1592 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1592 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SourceCodester Best 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-2025-1592 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SourceCodester Best 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-2025-1592/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1592/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1592
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1592
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1592

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1592/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.