CVE-2017-7579 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

inc/PMF/Faq.php in phpMyFAQ before 2.9.7 has XSS in the question field.

Published: 2017-04-07

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-16584	inc/PMF/Faq.php in phpMyFAQ before 2.9.7 has XSS in the question field.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00668.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.phpmyfaq.de/security/advisory-2017-04-02
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/a69f32175c28af1b34e5df83000f830e60f6bce9

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Phpmyfaq Phpmyfaq

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-07T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:12.016Z

Reserved: 2017-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7579

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-07T16:59:00.163

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:24:40.740

Link: CVE-2017-7579

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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

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