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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-40565 EUVD-2026-24141

FreeScout has Stored XSS / CSS Injection via linkify() — Unescaped URL in Anchor href

Published Apr 21, 2026 · Updated Apr 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
freescout-help-desk freescout < 1.8.213 —

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