CVE-2024-22208
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22208
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-22208.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-22208
- Aliases
- Published
- 2024-02-05T20:44:23.236Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T05:09:06.598379Z
- Severity
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- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- phpMyFAQ sharing FAQ functionality can easily be abused for phishing purposes
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-863" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/22xxx/CVE-2024-22208.json", "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M" }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed