Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2025 · Assigned by VulnCheck

CVE-2025-34305IPFire < v2.29 Stored XSS via Multiple Methods in cleanhtml()

Medium 5.1

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in IPFire from IPFire.org. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IPFire.org	IPFire	0 – before 2.29 (Core Update 198)

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

References

https://www.ipfire.org/blog/ipfire-2-29-core-update-198-released vendor-advisory, patch
https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13880 issue-tracking
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ipfire-stored-xss-via-multiple-methods-in-cleanhtml third-party-advisory