Critical 9.8Published Sep 29, 2025

CVE-2025-54875FreshRSS: Unauthorized creation of admin user when registration is enabled

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 1:23 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-284
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Sep 30, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 19, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

FreshRSS FreshRSS freshrss:freshrss (from the name)	from 1.16.0, < 1.27.0	CNA record
freshrss freshrss freshrss:freshrss	from 1.16.0 before 1.27.0	NVD

References

https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-h625-ghr3-jppqx-refsource-confirm, exploit, third-party-advisory, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/7783x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.27.0x-refsource-misc, release-notes

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