CVE-2026-38444

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Published 2026-08-03 · Modified 2026-08-03

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.