# CVE-2025-54783: SuiteCRM: Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) through HTTP Referrer header

> Attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victim browsers via the HTTP Referer header in SuiteCRM, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vqrj-gp9m-8c6r

## What is CVE-2025-54783?

CVE-2025-54783 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm, published on 7 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. Versions 7.14.6 and below have a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute JavaScript code by modifying the HTTP Referer header to include some arbitrary domain with malicious JavaScript code at the end. The server will attempt to block the arbitrary domain but allow the JavaScript code to execute. This is fixed in version 7.14.7.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54783?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Salesagility Suitecrm.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-54783?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54783 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-54783 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54783 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Salesagility Suitecrm

- [CVE-2024-36412](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36412/): SuiteCRM unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-1644](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1644/): Suite CRM v7.14.2 - RCE via Local File Inclusion (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2021-45898](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-45898/): Path traversal in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-45899](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-45899/): Deserialization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-8783](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8783/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-54783 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-54783 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm, published on 7 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54783 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Salesagility Suitecrm. 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-2025-54783/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54783/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54783
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54783
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54783

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54783/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.