FKIE_CVE-2022-42247

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-10-03 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:04
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
pfSense v2.5.2 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the browser.php component. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a file name.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gist.github.com/enferas/b4ca7a4fb52e1b5e698f87e4d655a70aExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/73ca6743954ac9f35ca293e3f2af63eac20cf32ePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gist.github.com/enferas/b4ca7a4fb52e1b5e698f87e4d655a70aExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/73ca6743954ac9f35ca293e3f2af63eac20cf32ePatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pfsense pfsense 2.5.2
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:04:34.680",
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