CVE-2026-40568

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40568

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-40568.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-40568

Aliases

GHSA-w2f5-6wcv-677r

Published

2026-04-21T16:08:37.296Z

Modified

2026-07-15T01:48:54.425030166Z

Severity

8.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

FreeScout Vulnerable to XSS via Mailbox Signature Due to Incomplete HTML Sanitization

Details

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Versions prior to 1.8.213 have a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the mailbox signature feature. The sanitization function Helper::stripDangerousTags() (app/Misc/Helper.php:568) uses an incomplete blocklist of only four HTML tags (script, form, iframe, object) and does not remove event handler attributes. When a mailbox signature is saved via MailboxesController::updateSave() (app/Http/Controllers/MailboxesController.php:267), HTML elements such as <img>, <svg>, and <details> with event handler attributes like onerror and onload pass through sanitization unchanged and are stored in the database. The signature is then rendered as raw HTML via the Blade {!! !!} tag in editor_bottom_toolbar.blade.php:6 and re-inserted into the visible DOM by jQuery .html() at main.js:1789-1790, triggering the injected event handlers. Any authenticated user with the ACCESS_PERM_SIGNATURE (sig) permission on a mailbox -- a delegatable, non-admin permission -- can inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript into the mailbox signature. The payload fires automatically, with no victim interaction, whenever any agent or administrator opens any conversation in the affected mailbox. This enables session hijacking (under CSP bypass conditions such as IE11 or module-weakened CSP), phishing overlays that work in all browsers regardless of CSP, and chaining to admin-level actions including email exfiltration via mass assignment and self-propagating worm behavior across all mailboxes. Version 1.8.213 fixes the issue.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/40xxx/CVE-2026-40568.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-116",
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}

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

1d83e1cffb0bf8d109625313530b36b0f5910b3f

Fixed

acf57a7a4b19544641523c6f7e51b1035c03c9b6

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.8.213"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

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

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1.2.0

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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

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1.3.18

1.3.19

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1.3.5

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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

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1.5.9

1.6.0

1.6.1

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1.6.20

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1.7.0

1.7.1

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1.7.30

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1.8.0

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1.8.2

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1.8.5

1.8.50

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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

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1.8.72

1.8.73

1.8.74

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1.8.76

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1.8.8

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Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-40568.json"