Access Control Bypass Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions <3.1.12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-5414892
  • published 6 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 6 Apr 2023
  • credit isdkrisna

How to fix?

Upgrade thorsten/phpmyfaq to version 3.1.12 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 Access Control Bypass such that comments are still sent in inactive FAQ News.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

5.4 medium