CVE-2024-27299 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-qgxx-4xv5-6hcw https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/1b68a5f89fb65996c56285fa636b818de8608011 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BFL8GHIBxSUxu0TneYf66KjFA0A4RZga?usp=sharing