CVE-2022-42247

6.1 mediumEPSS 3.3%

Medium (6.1) in pfsense pfsense. EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.1 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2022-10-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pfsense:pfsense

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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