Security Advisory 2016-04-11

RCE via CSRF in phpMyFAQ

Issued on:

2016-04-11

Software:

phpMyFAQ <= 2.8.26 and phpMyFAQ <= 2.9.0-RC2

Risk:

High

Platforms:

all

The phpMyFAQ Team has learned of a security issue that have been discovered in phpMyFAQ 2.8.26 and 2.9.0-RC2 and earlier. phpMyFAQ contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability.

Description

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly verify origin of HTTP requests in "Interface Translation" functionality. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted malicious web page with CSRF exploit, trick a logged-in administrator to visit the page, spoof the HTTP request, as if it was coming from the legitimate user, inject and execute arbitrary PHP code on the target system with privileges of the webserver.

Solution

The phpMyFAQ Team has released the new phpMyFAQ versions 2.8.27 and 2.9.0-RC3 which fix the vulnerability. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest version.

Workaround

There's no workaround except installing phpMyFAQ 2.8.27 and 2.9.0-RC3.

Credits

• HTB23300 Security Advisory

Thanks

The phpMyFAQ teams would like to thank High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab for the responsible disclosure of this vulnerability.

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