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pfSense: pfSense-SA-20_02.webgui: XSS vulnerability in the WebGUI

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 17, 2020
Added
Mar 27, 2020
Modified
Feb 18, 2025

Description


A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in services_acb.php, a
component of the pfSense software WebGUI, on version 2.4.4-p3 and earlier.

The page did not encode the hostname parameter used with legacy settings in its
output, leading to a possible XSS.

Due to the lack of proper encoding on the affected parameters susceptible to
XSS, arbitrary JavaScript could be executed in the user's browser. The user's
session cookie or other information from the session may be compromised.

Solution

pfsense-upgrade-latest
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