thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5 Add News authorEmail sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Add News. This manipulation of the argument authorEmail causes sql injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-27299. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Add News. The manipulation of the argument authorEmail with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect 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 the "Add News" functionality 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. The vulnerable field lies in 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 of phpMyFAQ (3.2.5), this field is not escaped properly can be used together with other fields to fully exploit the SQL injection vulnerability. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-27299 since 02/22/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1505 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.2.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 1b68a5f89fb65996c56285fa636b818de8608011 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

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

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