Vulnerability · Published May 30, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-48488FreeScout Vulnerable to Stored XSS
Medium 4.6
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in freescout from freescout-help-desk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 4.0)4.6Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 80.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| freescout-help-desk | freescout | < 1.8.180 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: 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