Security Advisory 2016-04-11

RCE via CSRF in phpMyFAQ

The phpMyFAQ Team has learned of a security issue that have been discovered in phpMyFAQ 2.8.26 and 2.9.0-RC2 and

earlier. phpMyFAQ contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability.

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.

The phpMyFAQ Team has released the new phpMyFAQ versions 2.8.27 and 2.9.0-RC3 which fix the vulnerability. All users

of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest version.

There's no workaround except installing phpMyFAQ 2.8.27 and 2.9.0-RC3.

The phpMyFAQ teams would like to thank High-Tech

Bridge Security Research Lab for the responsible disclosure of this vulnerability.