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CVE-2023-1758: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in thorsten/phpmyfaq

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-75

Description

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

Affected products

• thorsten phpMyFAQ: before 3.1.12 — fixed in 3.1.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: thorsten phpMyFAQ 3.1.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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