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CVE-2022-4407: 
PHP vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq versions prior to 3.1.9. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2022-4407 and was disclosed on December 11, 2022 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) issue, categorized under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The CVSS v3.1 base score is 6.1 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, though huntr.dev assessed it with a higher CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow attackers to execute malicious scripts in the context of the affected web application, potentially leading to theft of sensitive information, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was patched by adding missing HTML entity conversion to the affected code. The fix was implemented in version 3.1.9 of phpMyFAQ (GitHub Patch).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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