CVE-2019-11033 — Applaud HCM 4

Applaud HCM 4.0.42+ uses HTML tag fields for HTML inputs in a form. This leads to an XSS vulnerability with a payload starting with the <iframe./> substring.

01What is this vulnerability?

Applaud HCM 4.0.42+ uses HTML tag fields for HTML inputs in a form. This leads to an XSS vulnerability with a payload starting with the <iframe./> substring.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-05-16T14:56:59.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T22:40:15.943Z

09References

• www.applaudsolutions.com — https://www.applaudsolutions.com/resources/
• support.applaudsolutions.com — https://support.applaudsolutions.com/hc/en-us/articles/203794318-Download-latest…