CVE-2024-29179 (GCVE-0-2024-29179)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-25 20:27 – Updated: 2025-04-10 18:29
VLAI
Title
phpMyFAQ Stored Cross-site Scripting at File Attachments
Summary
phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. An attacker with admin privileges can upload an attachment containing JS code without extension and the application will render it as HTML which allows for XSS attacks.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-16 17:47 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7699 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
thorsten phpMyFAQ Affected: 3.2.5
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