🛡️ CVE-2023-4007 — phpmyfaq

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

phpMyFAQ Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.16.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-4007 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2023-4007 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • phpmyfaq (fixed in 3.1.16)
  • thorsten/phpmyfaq (fixed in 3.1.16)

Timeline and source

Published on 31 July 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
huntr.dev
github.com
huntr.dev

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-31
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyfaq — 3.1.16
thorsten/phpmyfaq — 3.1.16

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