CVE-2021-38583

6.1 MEDIUM

openBaraza HCM 3.1.6 does not properly neutralize user-controllable input, which allows reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) on multiple ...

Published: 2021-08-13 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 6.1 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE: CWE-79

Affected products

Vendor	Product
openbaraza	openbaraza_human_capital_management

Description

openBaraza HCM 3.1.6 does not properly neutralize user-controllable input, which allows reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) on multiple pages: hr/subscription.jsp and hr/application.jsp and and hr/index.jsp (with view= and data=).

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38583
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/charlesbickel/CVE-2021-38583
[Other]https://openbaraza.org
[Other]https://sourceforge.net/projects/obhrms/?source=directory
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/charlesbickel/CVE-2021-38583
[Other]https://openbaraza.org
[Other]https://sourceforge.net/projects/obhrms/?source=directory

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