thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5 insertentry/saveentry sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function insertentry/saveentry. The manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-28107. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function insertentry/saveentry. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the `insertentry` & `saveentry` when modifying records due to improper escaping of the email address. This allows any authenticated user with the rights to add/edit FAQ news to exploit this vulnerability to exfiltrate data, take over accounts and in some cases, even achieve RCE. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-28107 since 03/04/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1505 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.2.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch d0fae62a72615d809e6710861c1a7f67ac893007 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Content Management System

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• thorsten

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• phpmyfaq

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• 3.2.5

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/

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