CVE-2017-14618

medium

Published 2017-09-20 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

4.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.8

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in inc/PMF/Faq.php in phpMyFAQ through 2.9.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Questions field in an "Add New FAQ" action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

58%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42761 webapps php

Ishaq Mohammed · 2017-09-21

PHPMyFAQ 2.9.8 - Cross-Site Scripting (1)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
phpmyfaq	phpmyfaq	`{"endIncluding":"2.9.8"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.