GHSA-m9qm-m5w5-9pgj

thorsten/phpmyfaq vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) via updatecategory parameter

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-1879

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	thorsten/phpmyfaq	< 3.1.12	3.1.12

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) because it fails to sanitize user input in the updatecategory parameter. This has been fixed in 3.1.12.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1879 advisory
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/a2642195e9fcb9a6f151bfaa4ff20bf1b905da2e web
https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/0dc8e527c375007cd4b8dbf61f7167393a6f6e91 web
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ package
https://huntr.dev/bounties/1dc7f818-c8ea-4f80-b000-31b48a426334 web