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CVE-2024-55889

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-55889 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting phpMyFAQ versions prior to 3.2.10, allowing a privileged attacker to force a file download on a victim's machine without interaction by embedding it within an iframe. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code exists (EDB-52235), though community discussion and media coverage are currently minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-52235 · Apr 16, 2025
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0216 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 5,538 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 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: 3.2.10
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-m3r7-8gw7-qwvcmedium

thorsten/phpmyfaq Unintended File Download Triggered by Embedded Frames

Dec 13, 2024

References

github.com / thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/fa0f7368dc3288eedb1915def64ef8fb270f711d
Patch
github.com / thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m3r7-8gw7-qwvc
ExploitVendor Advisory