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Description

Smoothwall Express 3.1-SP4-polar-x86_64-update9 contains multiple reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the hosts.cgi script that allow attackers to inject malicious scripts through unvalidated parameters. Attackers can submit POST requests to the hosts.cgi endpoint with script payloads in the IP, HOSTNAME, or COMMENT parameters to execute arbitrary JavaScript in users' browsers.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-16 | Published 2026-02-16 | Updated 2026-02-17 | Assigner VulnCheck




MEDIUM: 5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
MEDIUM: 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

3.1
affected

Credits

Ozer Goker finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46333 (ExploitDB-46333) exploit

www.smoothwall.org (Smoothwall Official Vendor Homepage) product

www.vulncheck.com/...l-express-hostscgi-cross-site-scripting (VulnCheck Advisory: Smoothwall Express 3.1 'hosts.cgi' Cross-Site Scripting) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2019-25381)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2019-25381)

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