CVE-2025-48390 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/fb33d672a2d67f5a2b3cf69c80945267f17908b2 https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-5324-cw55-gwj5