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

4.3 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-29179

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.3

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Problem Types

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Vendor: thorsten

Product: phpMyFAQ

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.08% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 25.7% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29179
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9

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