# CVE-2025-54752: Code injection in PowerCMS

> Attackers can execute arbitrary code by tricking victims into opening malicious CSV files exported from PowerCMS.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 31 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fx25-qh4f-8ghh

## What is CVE-2025-54752?

CVE-2025-54752 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS, published on 31 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Multiple versions of PowerCMS improperly neutralize formula elements in a CSV file.  If a product user creates a malformed entry and a victim user downloads it as a CSV file and opens it in the user's environment, the embedded code may be executed.

Weakness: CWE-1236 (Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54752?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Alfasado Powercms.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-54752?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54752 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-54752 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54752 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS

- [CVE-2022-33941](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-33941/): Command injection in PowerCMS XMLRPC API (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-20850](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20850/): Command injection in PowerCMS XMLRPC API (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-46359](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46359/): Path traversal in PowerCMS (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2023-50297](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50297/): Open redirect in PowerCMS (PowerCMS 4 Series) (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2019-6020](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-6020/): Open redirect in PowerCMS (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-54752 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-54752 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS, published on 31 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54752 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54752/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54752/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54752
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54752
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54752

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54752/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.