Stored HTML injection in EspoCRM email received notifications
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
EspoCRM before 9.3.9 renders the plain-text body of emails received by monitored groups or IMAP addresses without escaping, in Email Received stream notification emails (CWE-79). An unauthenticated remote attacker can send an email with arbitrary HTML to such an address, and the earlier sanitization for Post and Mention notifications does not cover this path. Mail clients that execute the markup can run JavaScript when the user opens the notification.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
EspoCRM is an open source customer relationship management application. Prior to 9.3.9, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send an email to a monitored group or IMAP address, including an email-to-Case address, and place arbitrary HTML in its plain-text body. EspoCRM stores that body and renders it without escaping in Email Received stream notification emails sent to users following the related record, allowing HTML injection and, in mail clients that execute it, JavaScript execution. Earlier sanitization for Post and Mention notifications did not cover this notification path. This issue is fixed in version 9.3.9.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Upgrade EspoCRM to version 9.3.9, which fixes this issue.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
- Fix · CNA espocrm (espocrm) Fixed in 9.3.9
Timeline
- 2026-10-16 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-59994
- 2026-10-20 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
More espocrm vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-19229 EspoCRM 5.7.0 < 5.9.0 - Two-Factor Authentication Bypass via Auth Token Reuse Between Accounts with Identical Passwords CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-26036 Path traversal in espocrm CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2025-32670 EspoCRM vulnerable to LDAP Injection through Improper Neutralization of Special Elements CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-26112 EspoCRM has Admin TemplateManager path traversal that allows arbitrary file read write and delete CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2025-23468 EspoCRM vulnerable to HTML Injection into phishing, which may lead to account takeover CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.0
- TI-2026-26120 EspoCRM: Stored XSS via SVG attachment loading same-origin JavaScript CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8
Sources
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