CVE-2025-26258
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSourcecodester Employee Management System v1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via 'Add Designation.'
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Add Designation function of Sourcecodester Employee Management System v1.0 allows attackers to inject malicious scripts through unsanitized input fields, which are then executed in the browsers of other users.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 1.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm the Employee Management System versionLocate and examine the application's version file, about page, or any metadata file that displays the software version. Common paths may include a README file, version.php, or the main index page footer.Affected if The installed version is Remyandrade Employee Management System version 1.0 exactly
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Locate the Add Designation functionSearch the application source code for files handling designation management. Look for functions or pages named 'add_designation', 'designation', or similar that handle creating new designations in the system.Affected if The Add Designation functionality exists and is accessible in the application
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Identify the input handling code for Designation fieldExamine the server-side code that processes input from the Add Designation form. Look for the code that receives and processes the designation name or description parameters.Affected if The code accepts user input for the Designation field without proper sanitization checks
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Check for input validation or output encodingReview the Add Designation code for the presence of input validation functions (such as htmlspecialchars, strip_tags, or parameterized queries) applied to the designation input before storage or display.Affected if No input validation or output encoding functions are found protecting the Designation field from script injection
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Verify if stored designation data is rendered unsafelyTest the application by adding a designation with a simple script tag (such as <script>alert(1)</script>) and then viewing the designation list to see if the script executes in the browser.Affected if The script tag is rendered and executed in the browser when viewing designations, indicating the XSS vulnerability is present
The environment is affected if the Remyandrade Employee Management System version 1.0 is installed and the Add Designation function lacks input sanitization or output encoding for the designation input field.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement input validation and output encoding for all user-supplied data in the Add Designation functionality to prevent script injection.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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