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CVE-2024-27299

phpMyFAQ SQL Injection at "Save News"

Published: Mar 25, 2024Updated: Jan 9, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-89
8.8HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.2%
Top 36.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-89

Affected Products

thorsten
individual-devaka thorsten/phpmyfaq, phpmyfaq
phpMyFAQOn-premWeb App
Web & CMS Plugins
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
phpMyFAQOn-premWeb App
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
phpmyfaq
oss-project
phpmyfaq
Web & CMS Plugins
Packagist
package-ecosystem
phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-qgxx-4xv5-6hcw
github.com
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/1b68a5f89fb65996c56285fa636b818de8608011
github.com
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BFL8GHIBxSUxu0TneYf66KjFA0A4RZga?usp=sharing
drive.google.com
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