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1 vulnerability found for by Phpmyfaq
CVE-2023-53929 (GCVE-0-2023-53929)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-17 22:44
Modified
2025-12-18 15:02
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1236 - Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
Summary
phpMyFAQ 3.1.12 contains a CSV injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users to inject malicious formulas into their profile names. Attackers can modify their user profile name with a payload like 'calc|a!z|' to trigger code execution when an administrator exports user data as a CSV file.
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