phpMyFAQ Stored Cross-site Scripting at File Attachments

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  "id": "27695cc508be65eb74ed86804dbb7d3686f3e7bc92bc64df7a646655ef07a18e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29179",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "phpMyFAQ Stored Cross-site Scripting at File Attachments",
    "summary": "phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. An attacker with admin privileges can upload an attachment containing JS code without extension and the application will render it as HTML which allows for XSS attacks.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-29179",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-29179",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-29179",
        "GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "ee05654763ef0f16137d3bd21ec50e2f21ffb8f8"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "ee05654763ef0f16137d3bd21ec50e2f21ffb8f8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.2.5"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.2.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:3.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.2.5"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.2.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.2.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-29179.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.172945587Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/29xxx/CVE-2024-29179.json",
        "https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29179"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-79"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/29xxx/CVE-2024-29179.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-29179",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518346,
  "published_at": "2024-03-25T20:27:55.083+00:00"
}