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Description

Smoothwall Express 3.1-SP4-polar-x86_64-update9 contains multiple stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the preferences.cgi script that allow attackers to inject malicious scripts through the HOSTNAME, KEYMAP, and OPENNESS parameters. Attackers can submit POST requests with script payloads to preferences.cgi to store malicious code that executes in the browsers of users accessing the preferences page.

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




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
HIGH: 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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 Vendor Homepage) product

www.vulncheck.com/...express-preferencescgi-cross-site-scrip (VulnCheck Advisory: Smoothwall Express 3.1 'preferences.cgi' Cross-Site Scripting) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2019-25395)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2019-25395)

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