CVE-2025-34305
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
28/10/2025
Last modified:
03/11/2025
Description
IPFire versions prior to 2.29 (Core Update 198) contain multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities caused by a bug in the cleanhtml() function (/var/ipfire/header.pl) that fails to apply HTML-entity encoding to user input. When an authenticated user submits data to affected endpoints - for example, POST /cgi-bin/wakeonlan.cgi (CLIENT_COMMENT), /cgi-bin/dhcp.cgi (ADVOPT_DATA, FIX_REMARK, FIX_FILENAME, FIX_ROOTPATH), /cgi-bin/connscheduler.cgi (ACTION_COMMENT), /cgi-bin/dnsforward.cgi (REMARK), /cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi (REMARK), or /cgi-bin/dns.cgi (REMARK) - the application calls escape() and HTML::Entities::encode_entities() but never assigns the sanitized result back to the output variable. The original unsanitized value is therefore stored and later rendered in the web interface without proper sanitation or encoding, allowing injected scripts to execute in the context of other users who view the affected entries.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
5.10
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
Base Score 3.x
5.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 2.29 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update183:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update184:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update185:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update186:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update187:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update188:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update189:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update190:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update191:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update192:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update193:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update194:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update195:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:ipfire:ipfire:2.29:core_update196:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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