CVE-2025-34305

IPFire versions prior to 2.29 (Core Update 198) contain multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities caused by a bug in the cleanhtml() function (/var/ipfire/header.pl) that fails to apply HTML-entity encoding to user input. When an authenticated user submits data to affected endpoints - for example, POST /cgi-bin/wakeonlan.cgi (CLIENT_COMMENT), /cgi-bin/dhcp.cgi (ADVOPT_DATA, FIX_REMARK, FIX_FILENAME, FIX_ROOTPATH), /cgi-bin/connscheduler.cgi (ACTION_COMMENT), /cgi-bin/dnsforward.cgi (REMARK), /cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi (REMARK), or /cgi-bin/dns.cgi (REMARK) - the application calls escape() and HTML::Entities::encode_entities() but never assigns the sanitized result back to the output variable. The original unsanitized value is therefore stored and later rendered in the web interface without proper sanitation or encoding, allowing injected scripts to execute in the context of other users who view the affected entries.

CVSS 4.0

5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-79

Published

2025-10-28

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• ipfire:ipfire

References

• https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13880
• https://www.ipfire.org/blog/ipfire-2-29-core-update-198-released
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ipfire-stored-xss-via-multiple-methods-in-cleanhtml

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