XSS in Phpmyfaq

CVE-2009-4780

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in index.php in phpMyFAQ before 2.5.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the lang parameter in a sitemap action, (2) the search parameter in a search action, (3) the tagging_id parameter in a search action, (4) the highlight parameter in an artikel action, (5) the artlang parameter in an artikel action, (6) the letter parameter in a sitemap action, (7) the lang parameter in a show action, (8) the cat parameter in a show action, (9) the newslang parameter in a news action, (10) the artlang parameter in a send2friend action, (11) the cat parameter in a send2friend action, (12) the id parameter in a send2friend action, (13) the srclang parameter in a translate action, (14) the id parameter in a translate action, (15) the cat parameter in a translate action, (16) the cat parameter in an add action, or (17) the question parameter in an add action. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.4th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2009-4780: held from 0.012 to 0.012.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Phpmyfaq — versions 0.70, 1.6.1, 2.5.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

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