CVE-2023-1758 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00068.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Phpmyfaq	Phpmyfaq

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-1175	Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.
Github GHSA	GHSA-3j93-7rf7-p7m6	thorsten/phpmyfaq vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in FAQ comment username parameter

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c

History

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntrdev

Published: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-10T20:42:40.540Z

Reserved: 2023-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-1758

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:57:24.986Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-05T16:15:07.367

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:39:50.483

Link: CVE-2023-1758

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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