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CVE-2025-68951GHSA-JV8R-HV7Q-P6VC

phpMyFAQ has stored XSS in admin "List of users" via display_name HTML entity decoding (html_entity_decode) + Twig |raw

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.0.16
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Versions 4.0.14 and 4.0.15 have a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript in an administrator’s browser by registering a user whose display name contains HTML entities. When an administrator views the admin user list, the payload is decoded server-side and rendered without escaping, resulting in script execution in the admin context. Version 4.0.16 contains a patch for the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • thorsten phpMyFAQ

    From 4.0.14 · fixed in 4.0.16

  • thorsten/phpmyfaqPackagist

    From 4.0.14 · fixed in 4.0.16

References 3

GitHub · thorsten/phpMyFAQ