CVE-2019-16915: Netgate Pfsense

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in pfSense through 2.4.4-p3. widgets/widgets/picture.widget.php uses the widgetkey parameter directly without sanitization (e.g., a basename call) for a pathname to file_get_contents or file_put_contents.

Affected products

• Netgate Pfsense: before 2.4.4 (fixed in 2.4.4); version 2.4.4 only

Published 2019-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.