Medium severity · published Aug 5, 2019
CVE-2019-14548
An issue was discovered in EspoCRM before 5.6.9
5.4
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in EspoCRM before 5.6.9. Stored XSS in the body of an Article was executed when a victim opens articles received through mail. This Article can be formed by an attacker using the Knowledge Base feature in the tab list. The attacker could inject malicious JavaScript inside the body of the article, thus helping him steal victims' cookies (hence compromising their accounts).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Espocrm · Espocrm
before 5.6.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14548
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14548
Exploit
https://gauravnarwani.com/publications/cve-2019-14548/
Patch
https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/commit/ffd3f762ce4a8de3b8962f33513e073c55d943b5
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/issues/1369
Release Notes
https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/releases/tag/5.6.9
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