Low

LibreNMS stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in poller group name

  • Disclosed: 19.05.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

LibreNMS v25.4.0 suffers from Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in the 'group name' parameter of the 'http://localhost/poller/groups' form. This vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

---------------------------------POC-----------------------------

Before Setting: Enable 'distributed_poller' in http://localhost/settings/poller/distributed

  1. Attacker creates a new poller group and injects the payload in the 'group name' parameter
payload: <script>alert('XSS')</script>
  1. Victim navigates to the 'http://localhost/addhost' to add a new host
  2. The payload is executed

code sink: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/blob/25.4.0/includes/html/pages/addhost.inc.php#L284

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package librenms/librenms < 25.5.0 25.5.0

References

CVSS score -
CVSS 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/E:P
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Composer
Package
librenms/librenms
Disclosed
19.05.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-hxw5-9cc5-cmw5 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: librenms/librenms

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (106) in the archive
Total entries
106
First → latest
10.2019 08.2026
Without a fix
6
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 5
  • High 39
  • Medium 56
  • Low 6

Disclosures per year

  1. 2019: 6
  2. 2020: 0
  3. 2021: 7
  4. 2022: 26
  5. 2023: 12
  6. 2024: 24
  7. 2025: 15
  8. 2026: 16
Severity:
  1. High · 7.1 CVE-2026-84192 < 26.5.0 26.5.0
  2. High · 7.1 CVE-2020-36947 <= 1.46 no fix
  3. LibreNMS stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in poller group name this entry
    Low CVE-2025-47931 < 25.5.0 25.5.0
  4. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2024-51092 < 24.10.0 24.10.0
  5. High · 7.8 CVE-2023-5591 < 23.10.0 23.10.0
  6. High · 8.4 CVE-2023-5060 < 23.9.1 23.9.1
  7. High · 7.6 CVE-2023-4347 < 23.8.0 23.8.0
  8. High · 8.8 CVE-2022-3525 < 22.10.0 22.10.0
  9. High · 7.6 CVE-2022-4068 < 22.10.0 22.10.0
  10. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2022-4070 < 22.10.0 22.10.0
  11. High CVE-2022-29712 < 22.4.0 22.4.0
  12. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2019-10665 <= 1.47 no fix
  13. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2018-20434 = 1.46 no fix
  14. High · 8.8 CVE-2018-20678 < 1.65 1.65
  15. High · 7.1 CVE-2022-0580 < 22.2.0 22.2.0
  16. High · 7.1 CVE-2022-0587 < 22.2.0 22.2.0
  17. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-44278 <= 21.11.0 no fix
  18. High · 8.8 CVE-2020-15877 < 1.65.1 1.65.1
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