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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-6501723
  • published 27 Mar 2024
  • disclosed 25 Mar 2024
  • credit kevinnivekkevin

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 email address in the insertentry and saveentry functions. An attacker can execute malicious SQL queries, potentially leading to data exfiltration, account takeover, and even remote code execution by modifying the email and notes parameters in the body of a POST request. This is only exploitable if the attacker is an authenticated user with the rights to add/edit FAQ news.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 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)
    High