VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2009-4780

medium
Published 2010-04-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33385 webapps php verified
Amol Naik · 2009-12-01

phpMyFAQ < 2.5.4 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq{"endIncluding":"2.5.4"}
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.60
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.65
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.70
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.80
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.80a
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.85
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.86
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.87
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.90
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.95
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq0.666
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.0.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.0.1a
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.4a
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.1.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.5a
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.2.5b
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.7
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.8
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.9
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.10
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.11
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.12
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.13
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.3.14
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.0a
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.7
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.8
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.9
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.10
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4.11
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.4a
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.7
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.8
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5.9
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.7
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.8
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.9
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.10
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.11
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.6.12
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.7
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.8
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.9
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.10
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.11
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.12
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.13
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.14
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.15
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.16
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.0.17
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.3

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.