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CVE-2023-1882

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-1882 is a DOM-based Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting phpMyFAQ versions prior to 3.1.12. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.4) requires user interaction and authenticated access, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts that could lead to information disclosure or limited data manipulation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.7
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 0.0 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: 3.1.12
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-jph3-3j24-pg3jhigh

thorsten/phpmyfaq vulnerable to DOM cross-site scripting (XSS) via configuration privacy note URL parameter

Apr 5, 2023

References

github.com / thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/49db615c300ae0f87795f20570f6f5bdccb1d2f2
Patch
huntr.dev / bounties/8ab09a1c-cfd5-4ce0-aae3-d33c93318957
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory