CVE-2020-35592
lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.009 · 58 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Pi-hole 5.0, 5.1, and 5.1.1 allows XSS via the Options header to the admin/ URI. A remote user is able to inject arbitrary web script or HTML due to incorrect sanitization of user-supplied data and achieve a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack against other users and steal the session cookie.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.5–5.4
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affected products (4)
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references (8)
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- https://discourse.pi-hole.net/c/announcements/5cnnvd
- https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-ftl-v5-7-and-web-v5-4-released/44449Patchcnnvd
- https://n4nj0.github.io/advisories/pi-hole-multiple-vulnerabilities-i/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35592cnnvd
- https://discourse.pi-hole.net/c/announcements/5enisa_euvd
- https://n4nj0.github.io/advisories/pi-hole-multiple-vulnerabilities-i/enisa_euvd
- https://discourse.pi-hole.net/c/announcements/5Release NotesVendor Advisorynvd
- https://n4nj0.github.io/advisories/pi-hole-multiple-vulnerabilities-i/ExploitThird Party Advisorynvd
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