CVSS 3.1
6.1 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2026-40565
Medium (6.1) in freescout freescout. 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 1.8.213, FreeScout's linkify() function in app/Misc/Helper.php converts plain-text URLs in email bodies into HTML anchor tags without escaping double-quote characters (") in the URL. HTMLPurifier (called first via getCleanBody()) preserves literal " characters in text nodes. linkify() then wraps URLs including those " chars inside an unescaped href="..." attribute, breaking out of the href and injecting arbitrary HTML attributes. Version 1.8.213 fixes the issue.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 9% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- freescout:freescout
References
- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/265379b3ae343f06846adc0aa8510643d1eac2df
- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/releases/tag/1.8.213
- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-49pm-xwqj-vwjp
- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-49pm-xwqj-vwjp