CVE-2025-66289 OrangeHRM is Vulnerable to Persistent Session Access Due to Missing Invalidation After User Disable and Password Change
Attackers retain access via active sessions after account disablement or password changes, bypassing security controls in OrangeHRM.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-66289?
CVE-2025-66289 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in orangehrm, published on 29 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OrangeHRM is a comprehensive human resource management (HRM) system. From version 5.0 to 5.7, the application does not invalidate existing sessions when a user is disabled or when a password change occurs, allowing active session cookies to remain valid indefinitely. As a result, a disabled user, or an attacker using a compromised account, can continue to access protected pages and perform operations as long as a prior session remains active. Because the server performs no session revocation or session-store cleanup during these critical state changes, disabling an account or updating credentials has no effect on already-established sessions. This makes administrative disable actions ineffective and allows unauthorized users to retain full access even after an account is closed or a password is reset, exposing the system to prolonged unauthorized use and significantly increasing the impact of account takeover scenarios. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.
Weakness: CWE-613
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-66289?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Orangehrm Orangehrm.
How do I fix CVE-2025-66289?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-66289 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2025-66289 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-66289 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in orangehrm
- CVE-2007-1193 Other in n/a
- CVE-2025-66224 OrangeHRM is Vulnerable to Code Execution Through Arbitrary File Write from Sendmail Parameter Injection
- CVE-2019-12839 Command injection in n/a
- CVE-2025-66225 OrangeHRM is Vulnerable to Account Takeover Through Unvalidated Username in Password Reset Workflow
- CVE-2024-36428 SQL injection in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-99qp-xh4q-pr9x.