CVE-2025-48489: Freescout

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.2% 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 application is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to insufficient data validation and sanitization during data reception. 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.