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CVE-2025-59428: EspoCRM allows arbitrary user creation via stored SVG injection and CSRF
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-10-14 · updated 2026-10-19
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
EspoCRM is an open source customer relationship management application. In versions before 9.1.9, a vulnerability allows arbitrary user creation, including administrative accounts, through a combination of stored SVG injection and lack of CSRF protection. An attacker with Knowledge Base edit permissions can embed a malicious SVG element containing a link in the body field of an article. When an authenticated user clicks the malicious link, they are redirected to an attacker-controlled HTML page that executes a CSRF request against the api/v1/User endpoint. If the victim is prompted for and enters their credentials, an attacker-controlled account is created with privileges determined by the CSRF payload. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.9.
Affected products
- espocrm: before 9.1.9 — fixed in 9.1.9
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: espocrm 9.1.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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