CVE-2019-25400

medium

Description

IPFire 2.21 Core Update 127 contains multiple reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the fwhosts.cgi script that allow attackers to inject malicious scripts through multiple parameters including HOSTNAME, IP, SUBNET, NETREMARK, HOSTREMARK, newhost, grp_name, remark, SRV_NAME, SRV_PORT, SRVGRP_NAME, SRVGRP_REMARK, and updatesrvgrp. Attackers can submit POST requests with script payloads in these parameters to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of authenticated users' browsers.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ipfire-core-update-multiple-xss-via-fwhostscgi

https://www.ipfire.org

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46344

https://downloads.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-2.x/2.21-core127/ipfire-2.21.x86_64-full-core127.iso

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-18

Updated: 2026-02-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003