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CVE-2024-29179: phpMyFAQ Stored Cross-site Scripting at File Attachments

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: 2024-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. An attacker with admin privileges can upload an attachment containing JS code without extension and the application will render it as HTML which allows for XSS attacks.

Affected products

• thorsten phpMyFAQ: 3.2.5

References

• https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9
• https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9

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