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Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-57117 affects Rems' Employee Management System 1.0. Public records describe JavaScript injection through the Department Name field on department.php. This could let an attacker influence what a user’s browser runs when they interact with the page. It is rated medium severity, and there is no source-supported evidence of active exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as a moderate web application risk. Prioritize if the system is internet-facing, used for employee records, or accessible by many users. The main business concern is browser-side compromise of user sessions or data exposure through injected script execution.
Technical view
The CVE record describes CWE-79 with CVSS 3.1 score 5.4: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The description says a malicious payload can be injected into Add Department’s Department Name field and executed on department.php. The title calls it clickjacking, but the details align more with cross-site scripting.
Likely exposure
Exposure appears limited to organizations running Rems' Employee Management System 1.0, especially if department.php or Add Department functionality is reachable by untrusted users. The CVE affected-product metadata is incomplete and lists product and vendor as n/a.
Exploitation context
Sources indicate remote network exploitation with low complexity and required user interaction. No CISA KEV listing or cited source confirms active exploitation. The available description does not provide reliable detail on authentication context, affected deployment patterns, or fixed versions.
Researcher notes
The public record is sparse and internally inconsistent: it labels the issue clickjacking while assigning CWE-79 and describing JavaScript injection. No official patch, vendor advisory, or exploit-in-the-wild evidence is provided in the source bundle. Validate against the referenced proof material without reusing payloads in production.
Mitigation direction
- Check vendor or project guidance for a fixed release or official workaround.
- Restrict access to department management pages to trusted administrators.
- Validate and encode Department Name output before rendering in HTML.
- Review web application firewall rules for basic script-injection patterns.
- Reduce exposure of the application to untrusted networks where possible.
Validation and detection
- Confirm whether Rems' Employee Management System 1.0 is deployed.
- Identify whether department.php is accessible to untrusted users.
- Review Department Name handling for input validation and output encoding.
- Inspect existing Department Name records for suspicious script-like content.
- Monitor browser-side security reports and application logs for related activity.
Public sources used
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CWE-79: User-session and phishing behavior lookup
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.4 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N2.82.5CISA-ADPVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
5.4MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://www.sourcecodester.com/CVE reference, mitre
- https://github.com/Jazeye/CVE/blob/main/CVE-2025-57117/README.mdCVE reference, mitre
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CWE details
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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.