CVE-2026-32629 phpMyFAQ: Stored XSS via Unsanitized Email Field in Admin FAQ Editor

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, an unauthenticated attacker can submit a guest FAQ with an email address that is syntactically valid per RFC 5321 quoted local part yet contains raw HTML — for example "alert1"@evil.com. PHP's FILTERVALIDATEEMAIL accepts this...

phpMyFAQ 安全漏洞

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual FAQ system developed by Thorsten Rinne. It is entirely database-driven. Versions of phpMyFAQ prior to 4.1.1 contained security vulnerabilities, which were due to insufficient email address validation and cleanup measures. These vulnerabilities could lead to cross-site...

phpMyFAQ 安全漏洞

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual FAQ system developed by Thorsten Rinne. It is entirely database-driven. Versions of phpMyFAQ prior to 4.1.1 contained a security vulnerability; this vulnerability stemmed from the lack of escaping of SQL LIKE wildcards in search queries, which could lead to information...

phpMyFAQ 安全漏洞

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, database-driven FAQ system developed by Thorsten Rinne. Versions of phpMyFAQ prior to 4.1.1 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from an exploit that allowed bypassing the SVG cleaner, potentially allowing execution of arbitrary JavaScript...

phpMyFAQ 跨站脚本漏洞

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual FAQ system developed by Thorsten Rinne. It is entirely database-driven. Versions of phpMyFAQ prior to 4.1.1 contained a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This vulnerability stemmed from an issue with Filter::removeAttributes, where regular expressions were bypassed,...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the isSafe function of the SVG sanitizer process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of an...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the isSafe function of the SVG sanitizer process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of an...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic via the searchCustomPages process. An attacker can access unintended content by submitti...

GHSA-GCP9-5JC8-976X phpMyFAQ has a LIKE Wildcard Injection in Search.php — Unescaped % and _ Metacharacters Enable Broad Content Disclosure

Summary The searchCustomPages method in phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Search.php uses realescapestring via escape to sanitize the search term before embedding it in LIKE clauses. However, realescapestring does not escape SQL LIKE metacharacters % match any sequence and match any single character. An...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic via the searchCustomPages process. An attacker can access unintended content by submitti...

phpMyFAQ has a LIKE Wildcard Injection in Search.php — Unescaped % and _ Metacharacters Enable Broad Content Disclosure

Summary The searchCustomPages method in phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Search.php uses realescapestring via escape to sanitize the search term before embedding it in LIKE clauses. However, realescapestring does not escape SQL LIKE metacharacters % match any sequence and match any single character. An...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the removeAttributes process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of users viewing the FAQ page by...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the removeAttributes process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of users viewing the FAQ page by...

GHSA-CV2G-8CJ8-VGC7 phpMyFAQ: Stored XSS via Regex Bypass in Filter::removeAttributes()

Summary The sanitization pipeline for FAQ content is: 1. Filter::filterVar$input, FILTERSANITIZESPECIALCHARS — encodes , ", ', & to HTML entities 2. htmlentitydecode$input, ENTQUOTES | ENTHTML5 — decodes entities back to characters 3. Filter::removeAttributes$input — removes dangerous HTML...

phpMyFAQ: Stored XSS via Regex Bypass in Filter::removeAttributes()

Summary The sanitization pipeline for FAQ content is: 1. Filter::filterVar$input, FILTERSANITIZESPECIALCHARS — encodes , ", ', & to HTML entities 2. htmlentitydecode$input, ENTQUOTES | ENTHTML5 — decodes entities back to characters 3. Filter::removeAttributes$input — removes dangerous HTML...

GHSA-38M8-XRFJ-V38X phpMyFAQ: Path Traversal - Arbitrary File Deletion in MediaBrowserController

Summary The MediaBrowserController::index method handles file deletion for the media browser. When the fileRemove action is triggered, the user-supplied name parameter is concatenated with the base upload directory path without any path traversal validation. The FILTERSANITIZESPECIALCHARS filter...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the processing of user-supplied email addresses in the FAQ submission process. An attacker can execute arbitrary scripts in...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS in the processing of user-supplied email addresses in the FAQ submission process. An attacker can execute arbitrary scripts in...

GHSA-98GW-W575-H2PH phpMyFAQ is Vulnerable to Stored XSS via Unsanitized Email Field in Admin FAQ Editor

Summary An unauthenticated attacker can submit a guest FAQ with an email address that is syntactically valid per RFC 5321 quoted local part yet contains raw HTML — for example "alert1"@evil.com. PHP's FILTERVALIDATEEMAIL accepts this email as valid. The email is stored in the database without HTM...

CVE-2026-34729

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2026-03-31 17:23:49+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-cv2g-8cj8-vgc7 2026-03-31 17:23:49+00:00| published-proof-of-concept|...