Security Advisory 2016-05-31
Stored XSS in phpMyFAQ
- Issued on:
- 2016-05-31
- Software:
- phpMyFAQ <= 2.8.28 and phpMyFAQ <= 2.9.0
- Risk:
- High
- Platforms:
- all
The phpMyFAQ Team has learned of a security issue that have been discovered in phpMyFAQ 2.8.28 and 2.9.0 and
earlier. phpMyFAQ contains a stored vulnerability.
Description
phpMyFAQ relies on PHPs filter_input() function with FILTER_VALIDATE_URL flag is used to validate URLs inside the
functionality to save FAQs. But this function doesn’t protect against XSS.
Solution
The phpMyFAQ Team has released the new phpMyFAQ versions 2.8.29 and 2.9.1 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 2.8.29 and 2.9.1.
Credits
Thanks
The phpMyFAQ teams would like to thank Kacper Szurek
for the responsible disclosure of this vulnerability.