pfSense Plus before 26.07 and pfSense CE through 2.8.1 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Traffic Graphs top-talkers feature, where PTR records returned by reverse DNS lookups are incorporated without sanitization into AJAX responses and rendered as HTML through a DOM sink in the administrator interface. An attacker who controls a PTR record and generates sufficient traffic to appear as a top talker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in an administrator's browser, gaining access to the authenticated session context and same-origin access to the firewall management interface, enabling account creation and arbitrary OS command execution.
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Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000
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Netgate
Netgate pfsense Ce Netgate pfsense Plus |
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Netgate
Netgate pfsense Ce Netgate pfsense Plus |
Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000
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| Description | pfSense Plus before 26.07 and pfSense CE through 2.8.1 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Traffic Graphs top-talkers feature, where PTR records returned by reverse DNS lookups are incorporated without sanitization into AJAX responses and rendered as HTML through a DOM sink in the administrator interface. An attacker who controls a PTR record and generates sufficient traffic to appear as a top talker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in an administrator's browser, gaining access to the authenticated session context and same-origin access to the firewall management interface, enabling account creation and arbitrary OS command execution. | |
| Title | pfSense Plus/CE Stored XSS via Traffic Graphs PTR Record | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-19T19:18:50.158Z
Reserved: 2026-07-28T16:06:49.773Z
Link: CVE-2026-67189
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T20:17:20.740
Modified: 2026-08-19T20:17:20.740
Link: CVE-2026-67189
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Updated: 2026-08-19T21:45:07Z
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