thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5 email cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation of the argument email results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-27300. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument email with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-27300 since 02/22/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.2.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 09336b0ff0e0a04aa0c97c5975651af4769d2459 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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