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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

phpMyFAQ Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Vulnerability (CVE-2024-29196)

Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. There is a Path Traversal vulnerability in Attachments that allows attackers with admin rights to upload malicious files to other locations of the web root. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

Remediation

References

CVE-2024-29196

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Severity

Low

Classification

CVE-2024-29196 CWE-22 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Tags

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