SQL Injection

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to SQL Injection in the setTokenData function when OAuth token fields are interpolated into a SQL statement without proper escaping. An attacker can execut...

Brute Force

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Brute Force via the check process. An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative access by submitting arbitrary user-id and token values to the...

Brute Force

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Brute Force via the check process. An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative access by submitting arbitrary user-id and token values to the...

GHSA-9PQ7-MFWH-XX2J phpMyFAQ enables unauthenticated 2FA brute-force attack via /admin/check acceptance of arbitrary user-id

Summary The /admin/check endpoint in AuthenticationController implements SkipsAuthenticationCheck, making it reachable without any prior authentication. An anonymous attacker Bob can POST arbitrary user-id and token values to brute-force any user's 6-digit TOTP code. No rate limiting exists. The...

phpMyFAQ: Ordinary Authenticated User Can Access Admin-Only API Endpoints Due to Insufficient Authorization Check in phpMyFAQ

Summary A review of phpMyFAQ-main uncovered an authorization issue in the admin-api routes. Several backend endpoints only check whether the caller is logged in. They do not verify that the caller actually has backend or administrative privileges. As a result, a normal frontend user can access AP...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the admin-api routes due to insufficient authorization checks. An attacker can access backend operational information by...

GHSA-JRC5-W569-H7H5 phpMyFAQ: Ordinary Authenticated User Can Access Admin-Only API Endpoints Due to Insufficient Authorization Check in phpMyFAQ

Summary A review of phpMyFAQ-main uncovered an authorization issue in the admin-api routes. Several backend endpoints only check whether the caller is logged in. They do not verify that the caller actually has backend or administrative privileges. As a result, a normal frontend user can access AP...

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 via the search.twig template and the process that decodes and renders user-supplied content without proper sanitization. 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 via the search.twig template and the process that decodes and renders user-supplied content without proper sanitization. An...

Missing Authorization

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the ConfigurationTabController endpoints due to missing permission checks. An attacker can access sensitive configuration...

phpMyFAQ's Missing CONFIGURATION_EDIT Permission Check on 12 Admin API Configuration Tab Endpoints Allows Information Disclosure by Any Authenticated User

Summary 12 endpoints in ConfigurationTabController.php use userIsAuthenticated login-only check instead of userHasPermissionPermissionType::CONFIGURATIONEDIT. This allows any authenticated user — including ones with zero admin permissions — to enumerate system configuration metadata including the...

GHSA-RM98-82FR-MCFX phpMyFAQ's Missing CONFIGURATION_EDIT Permission Check on 12 Admin API Configuration Tab Endpoints Allows Information Disclosure by Any Authenticated User

Summary 12 endpoints in ConfigurationTabController.php use userIsAuthenticated login-only check instead of userHasPermissionPermissionType::CONFIGURATIONEDIT. This allows any authenticated user — including ones with zero admin permissions — to enumerate system configuration metadata including the...

GHSA-WHQH-9PQ5-C7R3 phpMyFAQ has a SVG Sanitizer Entity Decoding Depth Limit Bypass Leading to Stored XSS

Summary The SvgSanitizer::decodeAllEntities method limits recursive entity decoding to 5 iterations. By wrapping each character of javascript in an href attribute value with 5 levels of & encoding around numeric HTML entities e.g., amp;amp;amp;106; for j, an attacker can bypass both isSafe...

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 via the decodeAllEntities function. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the application origin by...

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 via the decodeAllEntities function. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the application origin 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 FAQ creation and update process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browsers of users who view maliciou...

GHSA-F5P7-2C9Q-8896 phpMyFAQ has Stored XSS in FAQ Question/Answer via Encode-Decode Bypass of removeAttributes() Sanitization

Summary The FAQ creation and update endpoints in phpMyFAQ apply FILTERSANITIZESPECIALCHARS which HTML-encodes input, then immediately call htmlentitydecode which reverses the encoding, followed by Filter::removeAttributes which only strips HTML attributes — not tags. This allows , , , and tags to...

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 FAQ creation and update process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browsers of users who view maliciou...

phpMyFAQ has Stored XSS in FAQ Question/Answer via Encode-Decode Bypass of removeAttributes() Sanitization

Summary The FAQ creation and update endpoints in phpMyFAQ apply FILTERSANITIZESPECIALCHARS which HTML-encodes input, then immediately call htmlentitydecode which reverses the encoding, followed by Filter::removeAttributes which only strips HTML attributes — not tags. This allows , , , and tags to...

Missing Authorization

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the delete process. An attacker can remove tags and disrupt FAQ organization by sending crafted DELETE requests to the admin AP...