Medium
Security advisory
An XSS vulnerability resides in the hostname field of the diag_ping.php page in pfsense before 2.4.5 version. After passing inputs to the command and executing this command, the $result variable is not sanitized before it is printed.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10797
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An XSS vulnerability resides in the hostname field of the diag_ping.php page in pfsense before 2.4.5 version. After passing inputs to the command and executing this command, the $result variable is not sanitized before it is printed.
osv:CVE-2020-10797
Complete source record
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"https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-4-5-new-features-and-changes.html",
"https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10355",
"https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/cc3990a334059018b004c91eeb66c147d8afe83d"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382856,
"published_at": "2020-04-29T14:15:16.967+00:00"
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