CVE-2024-27299

2024-03-2519:15:57

CWE-89

GitHub_M

web.nvd.nist.gov

phpmyfaq

sql injection

add news

php 8.1

mysql

postgresql

rce

cve-2024-27299

authenticated user

data exfiltration

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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 the “Add News” functionality 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. The vulnerable field lies in the authorEmail field which uses PHP’s FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL filter. This filter is insufficient in protecting against SQL injection attacks and should still be properly escaped. However, in this version of phpMyFAQ (3.2.5), this field is not escaped properly can be used together with other fields to fully exploit the SQL injection vulnerability. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "vendor": "thorsten",
    "product": "phpMyFAQ",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "3.2.5",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]