CVE-2025-29719
Published: 02 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-29719 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Remyandrade Employee Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked in the top 33.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14820
Vulnerability details
SourceCodester (rems) Employee Management System 1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in add_employee.php via the First Name and Address text fields.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
XSS vulnerability enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in victims' browsers (T1059.007), exploitation of public-facing web applications (T1190), and stealing web session cookies via injected scripts (T1539).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.