CVE-2026-40565

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40565

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-40565.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-40565

Aliases

GHSA-49pm-xwqj-vwjp

Published

2026-04-21T15:52:39Z

Modified

2026-10-28T02:31:08Z

Severity

6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

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

Details

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.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/40xxx/CVE-2026-40565.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout

Events

Introduced

Fixed

acf57a7a4b19544641523c6f7e51b1035c03c9b6

Fixed

265379b3ae343f06846adc0aa8510643d1eac2df

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:freescout:freescout:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "1.8.213"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "265379b3ae343f06846adc0aa8510643d1eac2df"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "1.8.213",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "acf57a7a4b19544641523c6f7e51b1035c03c9b6"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

1.0.2

1.0.3

1.0.4

1.0.5

1.0.6

1.0.7

1.0.8

1.0.9

1.1.0

1.1.1

1.1.10

1.1.2

1.1.3

1.1.4

1.1.5

1.1.6

1.1.7

1.1.8

1.1.9

1.2.0

1.2.1

1.2.2

1.2.3

1.2.4

1.2.5

1.2.6

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.3.10

1.3.11

1.3.12

1.3.13

1.3.14

1.3.15

1.3.16

1.3.17

1.3.18

1.3.19

1.3.2

1.3.3

1.3.4

1.3.5

1.3.6

1.3.7

1.3.8

1.3.9

1.4.0

1.4.1

1.4.10

1.4.11

1.4.12

1.4.2

1.4.3

1.4.4

1.4.6

1.4.7

1.4.8

1.4.9

1.5.0

1.5.1

1.5.10

1.5.11

1.5.12

1.5.13

1.5.14

1.5.15

1.5.2

1.5.3

1.5.4

1.5.5

1.5.6

1.5.7

1.5.8

1.5.9

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.6.10

1.6.11

1.6.12

1.6.13

1.6.14

1.6.15

1.6.16

1.6.17

1.6.18

1.6.19

1.6.2

1.6.20

1.6.3

1.6.4

1.6.5

1.6.6

1.6.7

1.6.8

1.6.9

1.7.0

1.7.1

1.7.10

1.7.11

1.7.12

1.7.13

1.7.14

1.7.15

1.7.16

1.7.17

1.7.18

1.7.19

1.7.2

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1.7.23

1.7.24

1.7.25

1.7.26

1.7.27

1.7.28

1.7.29

1.7.3

1.7.30

1.7.4

1.7.5

1.7.6

1.7.7

1.7.9

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.8.10

1.8.100

1.8.101

1.8.102

1.8.103

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1.8.12

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1.8.13

1.8.130

1.8.131

1.8.132

1.8.133

1.8.134

1.8.135

1.8.136

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1.8.14

1.8.140

1.8.141

1.8.142

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1.8.146

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1.8.15

1.8.150

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1.8.16

1.8.160

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1.8.17

1.8.170

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1.8.18

1.8.180

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1.8.19

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1.8.192

1.8.193

1.8.194

1.8.195

1.8.196

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1.8.2

1.8.20

1.8.200

1.8.201

1.8.202

1.8.203

1.8.204

1.8.205

1.8.206

1.8.207

1.8.208

1.8.209

1.8.21

1.8.210

1.8.211

1.8.212

1.8.22

1.8.23

1.8.24

1.8.25

1.8.26

1.8.27

1.8.28

1.8.29

1.8.3

1.8.30

1.8.31

1.8.32

1.8.33

1.8.34

1.8.35

1.8.36

1.8.37

1.8.38

1.8.39

1.8.4

1.8.40

1.8.41

1.8.42

1.8.43

1.8.44

1.8.45

1.8.46

1.8.47

1.8.48

1.8.49

1.8.5

1.8.50

1.8.51

1.8.52

1.8.53

1.8.54

1.8.55

1.8.56

1.8.57

1.8.58

1.8.59

1.8.6

1.8.60

1.8.61

1.8.62

1.8.63

1.8.65

1.8.66

1.8.67

1.8.68

1.8.69

1.8.7

1.8.70

1.8.71

1.8.72

1.8.73

1.8.74

1.8.75

1.8.76

1.8.77

1.8.78

1.8.79

1.8.8

1.8.80

1.8.81

1.8.82

1.8.83

1.8.84

1.8.85

1.8.86

1.8.87

1.8.88

1.8.89

1.8.9

1.8.90

1.8.91

1.8.92

1.8.93

1.8.94

1.8.95

1.8.96

1.8.97

1.8.98

1.8.99

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-40565.json"