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CVE-2024-27300

MEDIUM
Published 2024-03-25T18:30:35.810Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
5.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.004
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.4% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.624
Higher than 62.4% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW

Description

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

GitHub Security Advisories

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phpMyFAQ stored Cross-site Scripting at user email

GHSA-q7g6-xfh2-vhpx

Advisory Details

### Summary 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. ### Details Despite using PHP's `FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL` function, the email field does not adequately validate the content of the email address. This means that malicious input, such as JavaScript code, can be accepted and stored in the database without being detected. When the stored data is retrieved and displayed on web pages, it is not properly sanitized to remove or neutralize any potentially harmful content, such as JavaScript code which leads to Stored XSS. ### PoC 1. Login as any user, go to the user control panel, change email to any valid email and intercept the request. 2. Modify the request’s email parameter to the following payload: `"><svg/onload=confirm('XSS')>"@x.y` ![image](https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/assets/63487456/1c5a5431-773a-4e26-95ba-e2563f681ca1) 3. Send the request and see that the XSS is triggered in the user control panel page. ![image](https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/assets/63487456/b0328fcc-3c03-4997-8121-1f5e7cf89178) 4. Also affects any user who browse to "../admin/?action=user&user_action=listallusers" ![image](https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/assets/63487456/3af1add8-ea64-4350-a77e-d14da6084d4c) ### Impact This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary client side JavaScript within the context of another user's phpMyFAQ session.

Affected Packages

Packagist phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq
ECOSYSTEM: ≥3.2.5 <3.2.6

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 25, 2024, Modified: March 25, 2024

References

Published: 2024-03-25T18:30:35.810Z
Last Modified: 2024-08-02T00:28:00.229Z
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