CVE-2024-28107: phpMyFAQ SQL injections at insertentry & saveentry

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the `insertentry` & `saveentry` when modifying records due to improper escaping of the email address. This allows any authenticated user with the rights to add/edit FAQ news to exploit this vulnerability to exfiltrate data, take over accounts and in some cases, even achieve RCE. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

Affected products

thorsten phpMyFAQ: 3.2.5

References

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/d0fae62a72615d809e6710861c1a7f67ac893007
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-2grw-mc9r-822r
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/d0fae62a72615d809e6710861c1a7f67ac893007
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-2grw-mc9r-822r

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