thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5 contentLink cross site scripting

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation of the argument contentLink leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-28108. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument contentLink with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. Due to insufficient validation on the `contentLink` parameter, it is possible for unauthenticated users to inject HTML code to the page which might affect other users. _Also, requires that adding new FAQs is allowed for guests and that the admin doesn't check the content of a newly added FAQ._ This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-28108 since 03/04/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 3.2.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 4fed1d9602f0635260f789fe85995789d94d6634 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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