# CVE-2025-54785: SuiteCRM is Vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in Reports

> Attackers can exploit PHP object injection in SuiteCRM reports to execute code, escalate privileges, or access sensitive data.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-53cp-mpfw-qj67

## What is CVE-2025-54785?

CVE-2025-54785 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm, published on 6 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. In versions 7.14.6  and 8.8.0, user-supplied input is not validated/sanitized before it is passed to the unserialize function, which could lead to penetration, privilege escalation, sensitive data exposure, Denial of Service, cryptomining and ransomware. This issue is fixed in version 7.14.7 and 8.8.1.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54785?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Salesagility Suitecrm.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-54785?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54785 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-54785 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54785 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-2025-54785 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-54785 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm, published on 6 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54785 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-2025-54785/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54785/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54785
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54785
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54785

---
From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54785/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.