Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-27300

Title: Phpmyfaq Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-27300.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Mar 25, 2024
Modified Date Jan 09, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.69%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-27300: phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. The `email` field in phpMyFAQ's user control panel page is vulnerable to stored XSS attacks due to the inadequacy of PHP's `FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL` function, which only validates the email format, not its content. This vulnerability enables an attacker to execute arbitrary client-side JavaScript within the context of another user's phpMyFAQ session. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

Impacted Vendors

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phpmyfaq 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/09336b0ff0e0a04aa0c97c5975651af4769d2459 https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/de90315c9bd4ead5fe6ba5586f6b016843aa8209 https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-q7g6-xfh2-vhpx https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/09336b0ff0e0a04aa0c97c5975651af4769d2459 https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/de90315c9bd4ead5fe6ba5586f6b016843aa8209 https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-q7g6-xfh2-vhpx
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-27300 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.