Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-45315 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-45315 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-45315?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.4, published 13 August 2025.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Hortusfox 4.4.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-45315?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-45315 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-45315?
- Check whether you run Hortusfox at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the `create_user()` method within `app/controller/admin.php` of HortusFox-web v4.4. The application catches exceptions during user creation and passes the raw exception message—which includes the unsanitized `email` input—directly into a `FlashMessage` displayed to the user. An attacker with administrative privileges can inject a JavaScript payload into the `email` parameter; if a validation error occurs (such as a duplicate email), the payload is executed in the context of the administrator's browser. While this requires authenticated access and primarily affects the submitting user, it represents a failure to sanitize input echoed back in error states.
Affected products
- HortusFox hortusfox-web 4.4
Timeline
- 2025-08-13: advisory: NVD publication date