Administrator-context script execution via reflected interface parameters
Published Feb 16, 2026 · Updated Feb 16, 2026
Reflected XSS in Smoothwall Express 3.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in an administrator's browser via crafted POST data. The interfaces.cgi handler returns unneutralized values from network-address, netmask, DNS, gateway, hostname, and MAC fields in its HTML response. Exploitation requires access to submit the administrative request and interaction by an authenticated administrator; script execution remains confined to that browser context.
Summary
What happened
Reflected XSS in Smoothwall Express 3.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in an administrator's browser via crafted POST data. The interfaces.cgi handler returns unneutralized values from network-address, netmask, DNS, gateway, hostname, and MAC fields in its HTML response. Exploitation requires access to submit the administrative request and interaction by an authenticated administrator; script execution remains confined to that browser context.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2019-25390
- Published
- Feb 16, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 16, 2026
- Vendor
- Smoothwall
- Product
- Smoothwall Express
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 16, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 16, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=3.1
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Public exploit references
- Smoothwall Express 3.1-SP4 cross-site scripting proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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