CVE-2023-1758

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in thorsten/phpmyfaq

Severity Score

5.4

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Attend

*SSVC

Descriptions

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Attend

Exploitation

Poc

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Total

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-03-31 CVE Reserved
2023-04-05 CVE Published
2025-02-10 CVE Updated
2025-02-10 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c	2025-02-10

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57	2023-04-11

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Phpmyfaq Search vendor "Phpmyfaq"		Phpmyfaq Search vendor "Phpmyfaq" for product "Phpmyfaq"				< 3.1.12 Search vendor "Phpmyfaq" for product "Phpmyfaq" and version " < 3.1.12"		-		Affected