CVE-2023-53929

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.005 · 45 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.54% (45th) EPSS

CVSS 8 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

phpMyFAQ 3.1.12 contains a CSV injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users to inject malicious formulas into their profile names. Attackers can modify their user profile name with a payload like 'calc|a!z|' to trigger code execution when an administrator exports user data as a CSV file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 2.2–8.8

v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.1 · impact 5.9

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · disclosure@vulncheck.comexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v4.06.2mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v4.06.2mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Xsecondary · disclosure@vulncheck.com

v4.02.2lowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Xsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1236USCWE-1236US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Phpmyfaq phpMyFAQ≤ 3.1.12enisa_euvdEU
phpmyfaq phpmyfaq= 3.1.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Packagist phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq≤ 3.1.12osvUSpkg:composer/phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq
Packagist thorsten/phpmyfaq≤ 3.1.12osvUSpkg:composer/thorsten/phpmyfaq

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-x2v3-9p22-w3x6phpMyFAQ contains a CSV injection vulnerability2025-12-18ghsa · osvUS
phpMyFAQ 3.1.12 contains a CSV injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users to inject malicious formulas into their profile names. Attackers can modify their user profile name with a payload like 'calc|a!z|' to trigger code execution when an administrator exports user data as a CSV file.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-12-17modified 2026-06-17

references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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