VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-4821

medium
Published 2012-10-22 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyFAQ before 2.6.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to index.php.

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-34785 webapps php verified
Yam Mesicka · 2010-09-28

PHPMyFAQ 2.6.x - 'index.php' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq{"endIncluding":"2.6.8"}
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
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq1.5
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
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.5.7
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.0
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.1
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.2
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.3
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.4
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.5
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.6
phpmyfaqphpmyfaq2.6.7

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.