CVE-2023-5319 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.18.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.18.

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: 2023-09-30T00:00:16.272Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-23T16:08:54.276Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/e2542cbe-41ab-4a90-b6a4-191884c1834d
• github.com — https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/95ed9b20557ed930d4eed1f3a6db713416f3…