CVE-2025-48480 – FreeScout HTAccess File Deletion Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-48480

Published : May 30, 2025, 5:15 a.m. | 43 minutes ago

Description : FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, an authorized user with the administrator role or with the privilege User::PERM_EDIT_USERS can create a user, specifying the path to the user’s avatar ../.htaccess during creation, and then delete the user’s avatar, resulting in the deletion of the file .htaccess in the folder /storage/app/public. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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