CVE-2025-12921

OpenClinica Community Edition CRF Data Import ImportCRFData xml injection

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Nov 9, 2025
Updated: Nov 14, 2025
Reserved: Nov 9, 2025

Description

A vulnerability has been found in OpenClinica Community Edition up to 3.12.2/3.13. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /ImportCRFData?action=confirm of the component CRF Data Import. Such manipulation of the argument xml_file leads to xml injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	VulDB
3.0	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	VulDB
2.0	4.0 Medium	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-91 XML Injection
CWE-74 Injection

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Community EditionOpenClinica	3.0Affected 3.1Affected 3.2Affected 3.3Affected 3.4Affected 3.5Affected 3.6Affected 3.7Affected 3.8Affected 3.9Affected 3.10Affected 3.11Affected 3.12Affected 3.12.0Affected 3.12.1Affected 3.12.2Affected 3.13Affected

References

VDB-331641 | OpenClinica Community Edition CRF Data Import ImportCRFData xml injectionvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-331641 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #680872 | OpenClinica OpenClinica Community Edition 3.13, Changeset 74f4df3481b6 (2017-02-28) and 3.12.2, Changeset 347dcfca3d17 (2016-11-21) XML Injectionthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/mikecole-mg/security_findings/blob/main/openclinica/openclinica-xxe.mdrelated
https://github.com/mikecole-mg/security_findings/blob/main/openclinica/openclinica-xxe.md#pocexploit

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