CVE-2025-59948 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-59948: FreshRSS is vulnerable to XSS due to lack of CSP on HTML query page

Vendor Freshrss
Product FreshRSS
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published September 29, 2025
Last update September 30, 2025

CVSS base score

6.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. Versions 1.26.3 and below do not sanitize certain event handler attributes in feed content, so by finding a page that renders feed entries without CSP, it is possible to execute an XSS payload. The Allow API access authentication setting needs to be enabled by the instance administrator beforehand for the attack to work as it relies on api/query.php. An account takeover is possible by sending a change password request via the XSS payload / setting UserJS for persistence / stealing the autofill password / displaying a phishing page with a spoofed URL using history.replaceState() If the victim is an administrator, the attacker can also perform administrative actions. This issue is fixed in version 1.27.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 29, 2025 CVE published
September 30, 2025 Record updated