CVE-2024-50335
Authenticated XSS in "Publish Key" Field Allowing Unauthorized Administrator User Creation in SuiteCRM
- Published
- Nov 5, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 5, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 4, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 23.2%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. The "Publish Key" field in SuiteCRM's Edit Profile page is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), allowing an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code. This can be exploited to steal CSRF tokens and perform unauthorized actions, such as creating new administrative users without proper authentication. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input validation and sanitization of the Publish Key field within the SuiteCRM application. When an attacker injects a malicious script, it gets executed within the context of an authenticated user's session. The injected script (o.js) then leverages the captured CSRF token to forge requests that create new administrative users, effectively compromising the integrity and security of the CRM instance. This issue has been addressed in versions 7.14.6 and 8.7.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Sources
1A security vulnerability in SuiteCRM that can be exploited to steal CSRF tokens and perform unauthorized actions, such as creating new administrative users without proper authentication.
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