Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions <3.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.06% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-6039788
  • published 31 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 31 Oct 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade thorsten/phpmyfaq to version 3.2.1 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') via the renderRecordsByCategoryId function in the phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Faq.php file due to missing conversion to HTML entities.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Physical
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

4.8 medium