CVE-2025-59950 FreshRSS: Double clickjacking can lead to privilege escalation
Attackers can trick admins into promoting them to admin via clickjacking, enabling privilege escalation and account takeover in FreshRSS.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-59950?
CVE-2025-59950 is a medium-severity vulnerability in FreshRSS, published on 29 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. In versions 1.26.3 and below, due to a bypass of double clickjacking protection (confirmation dialog), it is possible to trick the admin into clicking the Promote button in another user's management page after the admin double clicks on a button inside an attacker-controlled website. A successful attack can allow the attacker to promote themselves to "admin" and log into other users' accounts; the attacker has to know the specific instance URL they're targeting. This issue is fixed in version 1.27.0.
Weakness: CWE-1021
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59950?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freshrss Freshrss.
How do I fix CVE-2025-59950?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-59950 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-59950 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-59950 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in FreshRSS
- CVE-2025-54875 FreshRSS: Unauthorized creation of admin user when registration is enabled
- CVE-2025-54592 FreshRSS has Incomplete Session Termination on Logout
- CVE-2025-62166 FreshRSS has an IDOR which allows for viewing feeds of any user and leaking tokens
- CVE-2025-54591 FreshRSS: Unauthenticated users can view default user's information
- CVE-2025-58173 FreshRSS vulnerable to authenticated RCE via path traversal inside include()
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j66v-hvqx-5vh3.