Medium6.1Netgate pfSense

pfSense: pfSense v2.5.2 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the browser.php component.

CVE-2022-42247 Published Oct 3, 2022Updated by vendor Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-42247

Affected products & platforms

Netgate pfSenseUnclassified

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.

Mitigation

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