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CVE-2022-42247

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• Netgate pfSense CE: 2.5.2

References

• https://gist.github.com/enferas/b4ca7a4fb52e1b5e698f87e4d655a70a
• https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/73ca6743954ac9f35ca293e3f2af63eac20cf32e
• https://gist.github.com/enferas/b4ca7a4fb52e1b5e698f87e4d655a70a
• https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/73ca6743954ac9f35ca293e3f2af63eac20cf32e

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