CVE-2026-57994: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 applies inconsistent active=yes and publication-date filtering across its public FAQ API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve inactive draft or review-only FAQ content. Specifically, GET /api/v3.1/faq/categoryId/faqId returns the inactive FAQ title and...

CVE-2026-57961: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a potential authenticated path traversal vulnerability in the concatenatePaths function within src/phpMyFAQ/Export/Pdf/Wrapper.php. A user with FAQ editing privileges can store HTML containing crafted image paths that are processed during PDF generation. The path...

EUVD-2026-40454

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUPEDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-valu...

Improper Privilege Management

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in the updatePermissions process. An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative privileges by assigning high-value...

Improper Privilege Management

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in the updatePermissions process. An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative privileges by assigning high-value...

CVE-2026-57995

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUPEDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-valu...

CVE-2026-57995 phpMyFAQ - Privilege Escalation via Missing Self-Rights Constraint in GroupController::updatePermissions

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUPEDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-valu...

CVE-2026-57995 phpMyFAQ - Privilege Escalation via Missing Self-Rights Constraint in GroupController::updatePermissions

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUPEDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-valu...

CVE-2026-57995 phpMyFAQ - Privilege Escalation via Missing Self-Rights Constraint in GroupController::updatePermissions

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUPEDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-valu...

CVE-2026-57995

phpMyFAQ

PT-2026-54050

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions phpMyFAQ versions prior to 4.1.5 Description An issue exists in the updatePermissions function within the GroupController that allows administrators with GROUP EDIT privileges to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying if they posse...

CVE-2026-57995: Improper Privilege Management

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUPEDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-valu...

GHSA-985R-Q3QP-299H phpMyFAQ has an incomplete fix for GHSA-xvp4-phqj-cjr3 — editUser() and updateUserRights() lack authorization guards

Advisory / Disclosure phpMyFAQ 4.1.3 — incomplete fix for the admin-API IDOR/privilege-escalation class Target: thorsten/phpMyFAQ composer: thorsten/phpmyfaq, phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq Affected: "Only SuperAdmins may change other users' attributes. Self-service is always allowed." and "a non-SuperAdmin...

Unlock of a Resource that is not Locked

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unlock of a Resource that is not Locked in the editUser and updateUserRights processes. An attacker can gain unauthorized SuperAdmin privileges or grant...

Unlock of a Resource that is not Locked

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unlock of a Resource that is not Locked in the editUser and updateUserRights processes. An attacker can gain unauthorized SuperAdmin privileges or grant...

EUVD-2026-37954

phpMyFAQ: Missing userHasPermission in 4 API write endpoints CVE-2026-24421 Incomplete Fix...

Missing Authorization

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the API endpoints responsible for category creation, FAQ creation, FAQ updating, and question creation due to missing permissio...

Missing Authorization

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the API endpoints responsible for category creation, FAQ creation, FAQ updating, and question creation due to missing permissio...

GHSA-8C6H-7G6X-M5X4 phpMyFAQ: Missing userHasPermission() in 4 API write endpoints (CVE-2026-24421 Incomplete Fix)

Missing Authorization in API CategoryController — CVE-2026-24421 fixed BackupController by adding userHasPermissionPermissionType::BACKUP. The same fix was NOT applied to 4 other write endpoints in the public API. All 4 only call hasValidToken shared API key but never call userHasPermission,...

phpMyFAQ: Missing userHasPermission() in 4 API write endpoints (CVE-2026-24421 Incomplete Fix)

Missing Authorization in API CategoryController — CVE-2026-24421 fixed BackupController by adding userHasPermissionPermissionType::BACKUP. The same fix was NOT applied to 4 other write endpoints in the public API. All 4 only call hasValidToken shared API key but never call userHasPermission,...