SQL Injection Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions >=3.2.5, <3.2.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-6495327
  • published26 Mar 2024
  • disclosed25 Mar 2024
  • creditkevinnivekkevin

Introduced: 25 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-27299  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-89  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thorsten/phpmyfaq to version 3.2.6 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 SQL Injection due to improper escaping of the authorEmail field which uses PHP's FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL filter. This filter is insufficient in protecting against SQL injection attacks and should still be properly escaped. However, in this version, the authorEmail field is not escaped properly and can be used together with other fields to fully exploit the vulnerability.

An attacker can exfiltrate data, take over accounts, and in some cases, even achieve remote code execution by exploiting this vulnerability.

References

CVSS Scores

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