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phpMyFAQ Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2024-29179)

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2024-29179

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phpMyFAQ Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2023-1760)

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Elgg Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Vulnerability (CVE-2011-2936)

OpenSSL NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability (CVE-2006-4343)

Apache HTTP Server Other Vulnerability (CVE-2001-1342)

Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2024-29179 CWE-707 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

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