What is CVE-2024-54779?

CVE-2024-54779 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netgate Pfsense Ce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-05-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-54779?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-54779 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Netgate Pfsense Ce

CVE-2024-54779

Netgate pfSense CE (prior to 2.8.0 beta release) and corresponding Plus builds is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in widgets/log.widget.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-05-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.085 (94.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.083 · newest: 0.085 · change: +0.002

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

blog.brillantit.com/exploiting-pfsense-xss-command-injection-cloud-hijack/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.netgate.com/blog/important-security-updates-for-pfsense-plus-24.11-and-ce-2… (Release Notes)
docs.netgate.com/downloads/pfSense-SA-25_01.webgui.asc (Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-54779?: CVE-2024-54779 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netgate Pfsense Ce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-05-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-54779?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-54779 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.