CVE-2025-48488: 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, 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

• Freescout Freescout: before 1.8.180 (fixed in 1.8.180)

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