# CVE-2025-59428: EspoCRM allows arbitrary user creation via stored SVG injection and CSRF

> Attackers can create administrative accounts via stored SVG injection and CSRF, requiring victim credential entry, affecting EspoCRM users.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 14 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 14 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c26c-wvhr-fr6r

## What is CVE-2025-59428?

CVE-2025-59428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in espocrm, published on 14 Oct 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

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.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59428?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Espocrm Espocrm.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-59428?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-59428 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-59428 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-59428 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in espocrm

- [CVE-2014-7985](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-7985/): Path traversal in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-33656](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33656/): Path traversal in espocrm (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2022-38843](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38843/): File upload in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2019-14351](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14351/): Information disclosure in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-37094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-37094/): EspoCRM 5.7.0 < 5.9.0 - Two-Factor Authentication Bypass via Auth Token Reuse Between Accounts with Identical Passwords (high 8.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-59428 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-59428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in espocrm, published on 14 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-59428 exists.

Affected product: espocrm. 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-2025-59428/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-59428/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59428
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59428
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59428

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-59428/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.