CVE-2025-54875

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. In versions 1.16.0 and above through 1.26.3, an unprivileged attacker can create a new admin user when registration is enabled through the use of a hidden field used only in the user management admin page, new_user_is_admin. This is fixed in version 1.27.0.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Analyzed - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2025-09-29

Last modified

2026-10-19

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Freshrss (Freshrss)

References

• https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-h625-ghr3-jppq
• https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/7783
• https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.27.0