Medium
Security advisory
An XSS issue was discovered in pfSense through 2.4.4-p3. In services_captiveportal_mac.php, the username and delmac parameters are displayed without sanitization.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16914
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An XSS issue was discovered in pfSense through 2.4.4-p3. In services_captiveportal_mac.php, the username and delmac parameters are displayed without sanitization.
osv:CVE-2019-16914
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/d31362b69d5d52dc196dc72f66e830cd1e6e9a4f"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-09-26T18:15:10.743+00:00"
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