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Medium · 5.1 CVE-2025-34305 EUVD-2025-36519GHSA-93x4-rqcr-8jqh

IPFire < v2.29 Stored XSS via Multiple Methods in cleanhtml()

Published Oct 28, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2025 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
IPFire.org IPFire < 2.29 (Core Update 198) 2.29 (Core Update 198)

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