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SCA: security update for phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq (GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415832

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-29179)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hm8r-95g3-5hj9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415832

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29179

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29179

cwe: CWE-79