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CVE-2025-48488

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-48488 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting FreeScout, a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox, prior to version 1.8.180. An authenticated attacker can exploit this by deleting the .htaccess file and uploading a malicious HTML file. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) requires user interaction and could lead to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.8.180CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freescout:freescout:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

4.6MEDIUM

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
HIGH
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
12.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-2m76-538h-7hf9
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