What is CVE-2019-25388?

CVE-2019-25388 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smoothwall Express, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2026-02-16.

How severe is CVE-2019-25388?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Smoothwall Express

CVE-2019-25388

Smoothwall Express 3.1-SP4-polar-x86_64-update9 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts by submitting crafted input to the ipblock.cgi endpoint. Attackers can inject script tags through the SRC_IP and COMMENT parameters in POST requests to execute arbitrary JavaScript in users' browsers.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (15.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Smoothwall Express — versions 3.1
Smoothwall Smoothwall_express — versions 3.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (Product, product)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-25388?: CVE-2019-25388 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smoothwall Express, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2026-02-16.
How severe is CVE-2019-25388?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.