Security Advisory 2023-08-27
XSS and CSV injection vulnerabilities in phpMyFAQ
- Issued on:
- 2023-08-27
- Software:
- phpMyFAQ <= 3.1.16
- Risk:
- Medium
- Platforms:
- all
The phpMyFAQ Team has learned of multiple security issues that'd been discovered in phpMyFAQ 3.1.16 and
earlier. phpMyFAQ contains cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
Description
phpMyFAQ doesn't implement sufficient checks to avoid XSS when adding malicious content into tags and FAQs.
Solution
The phpMyFAQ Team has released the new phpMyFAQ version 3.1.17, which fixes these vulnerabilities. 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 3.1.17.
References
Thanks
The phpMyFAQ team would like to thank @ahmedvienna for the responsible disclosures of these vulnerabilities.