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

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-1758",
  "method": "structured",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in thorsten/phpmyfaq",
    "summary": "Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-1758",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:40.604209212Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/1xxx/CVE-2023-1758.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1758",
        "https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 507934,
  "published_at": "2023-04-05T00:00:00+00:00"
}