Browser script execution via unescaped administrative tags
Published Feb 12, 2023 · Updated Mar 21, 2025
Code injection in phpMyFAQ before 3.1.11 allows remote authenticated users to execute script through a crafted administrative tag. The tag update flow returns attacker-controlled text, and tags.js inserts it into a span as HTML while tags.php applies incomplete entity encoding. Tag-management access and a subsequent administrative rendering are required; execution is confined to the viewing user's browser context.
Summary
What happened
Code injection in phpMyFAQ before 3.1.11 allows remote authenticated users to execute script through a crafted administrative tag. The tag update flow returns attacker-controlled text, and tags.js inserts it into a span as HTML while tags.php applies incomplete entity encoding. Tag-management access and a subsequent administrative rendering are required; execution is confined to the viewing user's browser context.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-0792
- Published
- Feb 12, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Thorsten Rinne
- Product
- phpMyFAQ
- Classifications
- CWE-94, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 12, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <3.1.11
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