Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions <3.1.18


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-5926730
  • published1 Oct 2023
  • disclosed30 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5317  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thorsten/phpmyfaq to version 3.1.18 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 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') due to improper input sanitization which allows the use of invalid URLs for instances.

References

CVSS Scores

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