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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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-CQRW-J4QC-7F9W Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ has unauthenticated FAQ permission bypass via getFaqBySolutionId fallback query

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-289f-fq7w-6q2w. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the getIdFromSolutionId method that lacks...

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...

GHSA-RMQR-H98C-QG2M Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ: Path traversal in Client::deleteClientFolder enables arbitrary directory deletion by non-super-admin admins

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-gh9p-q46p-57g2. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in Client::deleteClientFolder that allows admins with...

GHSA-6626-79JH-5CCR Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ enables unauthenticated 2FA brute-force attack via /admin/check acceptance of arbitrary user-id

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-9pq7-mfwh-xx2j. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains an improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability in the...

GHSA-W42G-JJ8W-FJ77 Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ: Stored XSS via Utils::parseUrl() in comment rendering

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-9525-27vj-c8r8. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Utils::parseUrl that allows authenticat...

GHSA-478M-MRW4-QF2W Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ has stored XSS via | raw Filter in search.twig — html_entity_decode(strip_tags()) Bypass in Search Result Rendering

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-pqh6-8fxf-jx22. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in search.twig where result.question and...

GHSA-P9WC-4PJV-RG82 Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ has SQL Injection in CurrentUser::setTokenData through unescaped OAuth token fields

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-pm8c-3qq3-72w7. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a sql injection vulnerability in CurrentUser::setTokenData that allows authenticated...

GHSA-H36G-93QX-RXGR Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ: Stored XSS in FAQ Question/Answer via Encode-Decode Bypass of removeAttributes() Sanitization

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-f5p7-2c9q-8896. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in FAQ creation and update endpoints that...

GHSA-5H62-F8FG-4W7Q Duplicate Advisory: phpMyFAQ: Missing Authorization on Tag Deletion Allows Any Authenticated User to Delete Tags

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-7cx3-2qx2-3g6w. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the DELETE /admin/api/content/tags/tagId...