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MEDIUM Received

CVE-2026-38444

osTicket v1.18.3 is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the email From-header display name. The value is extracted without sanitization in include/class.mailparse.php and stored raw in the poster field of ost_thread_entry. When an unauthenticated attacker sends a reply email to an existing ticket from an unregistered address with an XSS payload in the From display name.

Published 03 Aug 2026, 19:16 UTC Last modified 03 Aug 2026, 20:17 UTC
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Attack profile

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Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low
Availability None
Exploitability2.8
Impact2.7
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