CVE-2023-1882 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - DOM in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - DOM in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - DOM in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
thorsten	thorsten/phpmyfaq	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-10T19:49:42.117Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/8ab09a1c-cfd5-4ce0-aae3-d33c93318957
• github.com — https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/49db615c300ae0f87795f20570f6f5bdccb1…