CVE-2024-22208 (GCVE-0-2024-22208)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-05 20:44 – Updated: 2025-05-15 19:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
phpMyFAQ sharing FAQ functionality can easily be abused for phishing purposes
Summary
phpMyFAQ is an Open Source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. The 'sharing FAQ' functionality allows any unauthenticated actor to misuse the phpMyFAQ application to send arbitrary emails to a large range of targets. The phpMyFAQ application has a functionality where anyone can share a FAQ item to others. The front-end of this functionality allows any phpMyFAQ articles to be shared with 5 email addresses. Any unauthenticated actor can perform this action. There is a CAPTCHA in place, however the amount of people you email with a single request is not limited to 5 by the backend. An attacker can thus solve a single CAPTCHA and send thousands of emails at once. An attacker can utilize the target application's email server to send phishing messages. This can get the server on a blacklist, causing all emails to end up in spam. It can also lead to reputation damages. This issue has been patched in version 3.2.5.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-08 18:36 UTC
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
GitHub_M
CNA
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/a34d9… | x_refsource_MISC |
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