CVE-2025-48484 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-48484: FreeScout Vulnerable to Stored XSS

Vendor Freescout-Help-Desk

Product freescout

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published May 30, 2025

Last update May 30, 2025

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CVSS base score

4.6/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction —

Confidentiality —

Integrity —

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.178, the application is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to incorrect input validation and sanitization of user-input data in the conversation POST data body. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.178.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 30, 2025 CVE published

May 30, 2025 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48484 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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