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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-26693

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in pfSense 2.4.5-p1 which allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary web scripts via exploitation of the load_balancer_monitor.php function.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-26693

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Jun 2021, 15:15 UTC

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in pfSense 2.4.5-p1 which allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary web scripts via exploitation of the load_balancer_monitor.php function.

osv:CVE-2020-26693
Complete source record
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  "published_at": "2021-06-01T15:15:07.553+00:00"
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