CVE-2022-42247: Pfsense

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 3.2% 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.

Affected products

• Pfsense Pfsense: version 2.5.2 only

Published 2022-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.