Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions <3.1.11


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-3318872
  • published 13 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 13 Feb 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade thorsten/phpmyfaq to version 3.1.11 or higher.

Overview

thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection via the question and answer parameters, due to not stripping HTML tags.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical