pfSense CE 2.8.1 – safe to update?
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Released 408 days ago. We haven't searched for community reports on this version yet, so there's no verdict.
2025-09-04released
408days ago
0problem reports
0fine reports
1CVEs mapped
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What's in this release
pfSense Community Edition 2.8.1, based on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT.
Source: Netgate docs version table
CVEs fixed
- CVE-2026-67189 MEDIUM 5.3 (NVD: fixed in this version)
pfSense Plus before 26.07 and pfSense CE through 2.8.1 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Traffic Graphs top-talkers feature, where PTR records returned by reverse DNS lookups are incorporated without sanitization into AJAX responses a…
Community reports
- No community reports found yet. We check Reddit every few hours for posts that mention this version.
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Other pfSense versions
- CE 2.9.0 2026-08-20
- Plus 26.07 2026-08-13
- Plus 26.03.1 2026-05-27
- Plus 26.03 2026-04-01
- Plus 25.11.1 2026-01-26
- Plus 25.11 2025-12-11
- CE 2.8.1 2025-09-04
- Plus 25.07.1 2025-08-18
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