CVE-2010-4412

medium

Published 2010-12-07 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in pfSense 2 beta 4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the id parameter in an olsrd.xml action to pkg_edit.php, (2) the xml parameter to pkg.php, or the if parameter to (3) status_graph.php or (4) interfaces.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1182 and CVE-2010-4246.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35069 remote hardware verified

dave b · 2010-11-08

pfSense - 'pkg.php?xml' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-35068 remote hardware verified text · 1 KB

dave b · 2010-11-08

pfSense - 'pkg_edit.php?id' Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45272/info

pfSense is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

pfSense 2 Beta 4 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

https://www.example.com/pkg_edit.php?xml=olsrd.xml&id=%22/%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%282%29;%3C/script%3E

EDB-35071 remote hardware verified

dave b · 2010-11-08

pfSense - 'interfaces.php?if' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-35070 remote hardware verified

dave b · 2010-11-08

pfSense - 'status_graph.php?if' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
bsdperimeter	pfsense	`2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.