CVE-2025-48486: Freescout

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, the cross-site scripiting (XSS) vulnerability is caused by the lack of input validation and sanitization in both \Session::flash and __, allowing user input to be executed without proper filtering. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

Affected products

• Freescout Freescout: before 1.8.180 (fixed in 1.8.180)

Published 2025-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.