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FreeBSD: phpmyfaq -- cross-site request forgery vulnerability

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FreeBSD: phpmyfaq -- cross-site request forgery vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2016
Modified
04/25/2016

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(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-phpmyfaq

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