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Vulnerability details: VCID-bfsb-58cj-mfaa
Vulnerability ID VCID-bfsb-58cj-mfaa
Aliases CVE-2023-1758
GHSA-3j93-7rf7-p7m6
Summary Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.12.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-75 Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00276 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1758
cvssv3.1 8.9 https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ
cvssv3 8.9 https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
cvssv3.1 8.9 https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
ssvc Track* https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
cvssv3 8.9 https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
cvssv3.1 8.9 https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
generic_textual HIGH https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
ssvc Track* https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
cvssv3.1 8.9 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1758
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1758
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1758
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1758
0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57 https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
GHSA-3j93-7rf7-p7m6 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3j93-7rf7-p7m6
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L Found at https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L Found at https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L Found at https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2025-02-10T20:42:37Z/ Found at https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/f3380f46c464d1bc6f3ded29213c79be0de8fc57
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L Found at https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L Found at https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2025-02-10T20:42:37Z/ Found at https://huntr.dev/bounties/0854328e-eb00-41a3-9573-8da8f00e369c
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1758
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.51347
EPSS Score 0.00276
Published At June 11, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-11T17:27:24.563529+00:00 Vulnrichment Import https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2023/1xxx/CVE-2023-1758.json 38.6.0