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SCA: security update for phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq (GHSA-9hhf-xmcw-r3xg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413300

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. The
 'sharing FAQ' functionality allows any unauthenticated actor to misuse the phpMyFAQ application to send
 arbitrary emails to a large range of targets. The phpMyFAQ application has a functionality where anyone
 can share a FAQ item to others. The front-end of this functionality allows any phpMyFAQ articles to be
 shared with 5 email addresses. Any unauthenticated actor can perform this action. There is a CAPTCHA in
 place, however the amount of people you email with a single request is not limited to 5 by the backend. An
 attacker can thus solve a single CAPTCHA and send thousands of emails at once. An attacker can utilize the
 target application's email server to send phishing messages. This can get the server on a blacklist,
 causing all emails to end up in spam. It can also lead to reputation damages. This issue has been patched
 in version 3.2.5. (CVE-2024-22208)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9hhf-xmcw-r3xg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413300

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 2.1

Percentile: 7.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22208

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22208

cwe: CWE-863