phpMyFAQ 安全漏洞

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, fully database-driven FAQ system developed by Thorsten Rinne. Versions of phpMyFAQ prior to 4.1.3 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from an insecure direct object reference in the management API’s user password endpoint. As a result,...

phpMyFAQ 安全漏洞

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, fully database-driven FAQ system developed by Thorsten Rinne. Versions of phpMyFAQ prior to 4.1.3 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from the default empty value of api.apiClientToken in API v4.0, which allowed unverified users to create...

CVE-2026-35676: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.3 contains an unauthenticated password reset vulnerability in the user password update API endpoint that allows attackers to change account passwords without token validation. Attackers can enumerate valid username and email pairs and force immediate password changes by sendin...

PT-2026-51237

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions phpMyFAQ versions prior to 4.1.4 Description Missing authorization flaws in the editUser and updateUserRights endpoints allow authenticated administrators to escalate privileges. An authenticated non-SuperAdmin user possessing the edit user...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

phpMyFAQ is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting XSS. The vulnerability is due to improper escaping of malformed URLs in Utils::parseUrl, which allows an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript through comments and steal admin session cookies when affected pages are viewed...

phpMyFAQ: Missing Password Reset Token Allows Account Takeover via Username/Email Enumeration

Summary An authentication bypass vulnerability in phpMyFAQ allows any unauthenticated attacker to reset the password of any user account, including SuperAdmin accounts. By sending a PUT request with just a valid username and associated email address to /api/user/password/update, an attacker...

GHSA-W9XH-5F39-VQ89 phpMyFAQ: Missing Password Reset Token Allows Account Takeover via Username/Email Enumeration

Summary An authentication bypass vulnerability in phpMyFAQ allows any unauthenticated attacker to reset the password of any user account, including SuperAdmin accounts. By sending a PUT request with just a valid username and associated email address to /api/user/password/update, an attacker...

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password via the updatePassword process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to any user account,...

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password via the updatePassword process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to any user account,...

GHSA-GP95-J463-VV28 phpMyFAQ: Default Empty API Token Authentication Bypass

Summary A default empty API client token allows any unauthenticated user to create and modify FAQ entries, categories, and questions via the REST API. The vulnerability exists in all versions since API v4.0 was introduced because the installation process seeds api.apiClientToken with an empty...

Insecure Default Initialization of Resource

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Default Initialization of Resource via the hasValidToken function. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to create and modify FAQ entries,...

phpMyFAQ: Default Empty API Token Authentication Bypass

Summary A default empty API client token allows any unauthenticated user to create and modify FAQ entries, categories, and questions via the REST API. The vulnerability exists in all versions since API v4.0 was introduced because the installation process seeds api.apiClientToken with an empty...

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 overwritePassword process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to higher-privileged accounts, including full...

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Overview thorsten/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password via the updatePassword function. An attacker can enumerate valid user accounts and forcibly chan...

phpMyFAQ: Unauthenticated Password Reset Endpoint Allows User Enumeration and Forced Password Change Without Token Validation

Summary The password reset API can be triggered without authentication and without any out-of-band confirmation step. If an attacker knows a valid username + email pair, they can call the reset endpoint directly. The application immediately generates a new password, writes it to the account, and...

GHSA-9QV9-8XV6-5P35 phpMyFAQ: Unauthenticated Password Reset Endpoint Allows User Enumeration and Forced Password Change Without Token Validation

Summary The password reset API can be triggered without authentication and without any out-of-band confirmation step. If an attacker knows a valid username + email pair, they can call the reset endpoint directly. The application immediately generates a new password, writes it to the account, and...

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Overview phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password via the updatePassword function. An attacker can enumerate valid user accounts and forcibly chan...

CVE-2026-46362

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in AbstractAdministrationController::userHasPermission that fails to terminate execution after sending a forbidden response. Attackers can access all permission-protected admin pages by requesting their URLs as authenticated...

CVE-2026-45008

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in Client::deleteClientFolder that allows admins with INSTANCEDELETE permission to delete arbitrary directories. Attackers can submit traversal sequences like https://../../../ in the client URL parameter to recursively delete...

GHSA-9R8R-X3VG-6XH4 Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ: Ordinary Authenticated User Can Access Admin-Only API Endpoints Due to Insufficient Authorization Check

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-jrc5-w569-h7h5. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains an insufficient authorization vulnerability in admin-api routes that allows...