CVE-2025-48390

High

Description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.178, FreeScout is vulnerable to code injection due to insufficient validation of user input in the php_path parameter. The backticks characters are not removed, as well as tabulation is not removed. When checking user input, the file_exists function is also called to check for the presence of such a file (folder) in the file system. A user with the administrator role can create a translation for the language, which will create a folder in the file system. Further in tools.php, the user can specify the path to this folder as php_path, which will lead to the execution of code in backticks. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.178.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.2
Exploit probability—
ProductFreescout
PublishedMay 29, 2025
First seenMay 29, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • freescout freescout1.8.178 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
freescout freescoutv < 1.8.1781.8.178

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