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vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-f87a9376-0943-11e6-8fc4-00a0986f28c4: phpmyfaq -- cross-site request forgery vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 23, 2016
Added
Apr 25, 2016
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

The phpMyFAQ team reports: The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly verify origin of HTTP requests in "Interface Translation" functionality.: A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted malicious web page with CSRF exploit, trick a logged-in administrator to visit the page, spoof the HTTP request, as if it was coming from the legitimate user, inject and execute arbitrary PHP code on the target system with privileges of the webserver.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-phpmyfaq

References

Title
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