CVE-2023-5864 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.2.1.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.2.1.

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: 2023-10-31T00:00:19.789Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T13:55:06.239Z

09References

• huntr.com — https://huntr.com/bounties/e4b0e8f4-5e06-49d1-832f-5756573623ad
• github.com — https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/b3e5a053b59dcc072d76a55d6ce0311ea301…