CVE-2022-4407Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in thorsten/phpmyfaq
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 4.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.9.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- phpMyFAQ 3.1.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52226webapps, phppublished 16 Apr 2025Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| @huntrdevCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.9% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 3.1.9
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistthorsten/phpmyfaqGHSA-cp9c-phxx-55xm (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/a1649f43-78c9-4927-b313-36911872a84b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq/commit/1d73af34bf42764f9f9491c7ba5e9495d70e3ca5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2022-4407.md (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-7603 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cp9c-phxx-55xm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-4407)Record last updated .