CVE-2025-48488

FreeScout Vulnerable to Stored XSS

State: Published
Severity: 4.6 Medium
Published: May 30, 2025
Updated: May 30, 2025
Reserved: May 22, 2025

Description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, deleting the file .htaccess allows an attacker to upload an HTML file containing malicious JavaScript code to the server, which can result in a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.6 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
freescoutfreescout-help-desk	< 1.8.180Affected

References

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-2m76-538h-7hf9

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