CVE-2021-39268

6.1 MEDIUM

Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in the web interface of SuiteCRM before 7.11.19 allows a remote attacker to introduce arbitrary Jav...

Published: 2021-08-18 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 6.1 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE: CWE-79

Affected products

Vendor	Product
salesagility	suitecrm

Description

Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in the web interface of SuiteCRM before 7.11.19 allows a remote attacker to introduce arbitrary JavaScript via malicious SVG files. This occurs because the clean_file_output protection mechanism can be bypassed.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39268
[Vendor advisory]https://docs.suitecrm.com/admin/releases/7.11.x/#_7_11_19
[Other]https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM
[Exploit reference]https://thanhlocpanda.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/stored-xss-via-svg-on-suitecrm/
[Vendor advisory]https://docs.suitecrm.com/admin/releases/7.11.x/#_7_11_19
[Other]https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM
[Exploit reference]https://thanhlocpanda.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/stored-xss-via-svg-on-suitecrm/

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