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phpMyFAQ Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (SQL Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2024-27299 - Vulnerability Database
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phpMyFAQ Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (SQL Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2024-27299

High
Reference: CVE-2024-27299
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27299
Title: phpMyFAQ Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (SQL Injection) Vulnerability
Overview:

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1 and MySQL PostgreSQL and other databases. A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the the quotAdd Newsquot functionality due to improper escaping of the email address. This allows any authenticated user with the rights to add/edit FAQ news to exploit this vulnerability to exfiltrate data take over accounts and in some cases even achieve RCE. The vulnerable field lies in the authorEmail field which uses PHP39s FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL filter. This filter is insufficient in protecting against SQL injection attacks and should still be properly escaped. However in this version of phpMyFAQ (3.2.5) this field is not escaped properly can be used together with other fields to fully exploit the SQL injection vulnerability. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.