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CVE-2022-4407

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-4407 describes a Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting phpMyFAQ versions prior to 3.1.9. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts into a user's browser via a crafted link, requiring user interaction to trigger. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV listing), public exploit code exists, indicating a potential for future attacks. Despite this, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-52226 · Apr 16, 2025
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0438 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: thorsten/phpmyfaqFixed in: 3.1.9
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-cp9c-phxx-55xmmedium

phpMyFAQ vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Dec 11, 2022

References

github.com / MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2022-4407.md
github.com / thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/1d73af34bf42764f9f9491c7ba5e9495d70e3ca5
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/a1649f43-78c9-4927-b313-36911872a84b
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory