CVE-2026-40565 - FreeScout has Stored XSS / CSS Injection via linkify() — Unescaped URL in Anchor href

CVE-2026-40565 - FreeScout has Stored XSS / CSS Injection via linkify() — Unescaped URL in Anchor href

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-40565
Published : April 21, 2026, 3:52 p.m. | 19 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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