Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-53929

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 17 December 2025

Published
17 December 2025
Modified
31 December 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 6.2 CVSS: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:X
EPSS Score 0.0044 35.0th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-53929 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File (CWE-1236) vulnerability in Phpmyfaq Phpmyfaq. Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 35.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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data as a CSV file.

CWE(s)
CWE-1236

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

phpmyfaq
phpmyfaq
3.1.12

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References