PT-2026-41484

Summary The public /solution id id.html route calls Faq::getIdFromSolutionId in phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Faq.php:1312. That query joins faqdata with faqcategoryrelations solely by solution id and returns the matching FAQ's id, lang, thema title, and category id with no permission filter. An...

PT-2026-41474

Summary BuiltinCaptcha::garbageCollector and BuiltinCaptcha::saveCaptcha at phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Captcha/BuiltinCaptcha.php:298 and :330 interpolate the User-Agent header and client IP address into DELETE and INSERT queries with sprintf and no escaping. Both methods run on every hit to the publi...

PT-2026-41504

Summary 12 endpoints in ConfigurationTabController.php use userIsAuthenticated login-only check instead of userHasPermissionPermissionType::CONFIGURATION EDIT. This allows any authenticated user — including ones with zero admin permissions — to enumerate system configuration metadata including th...

PT-2026-41487

Summary The /admin/check endpoint in AuthenticationController implements SkipsAuthenticationCheck, making it reachable without any prior authentication. An anonymous attacker Bob can POST arbitrary user-id and token values to brute-force any user's 6-digit TOTP code. No rate limiting exists. The...

PT-2026-41366

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions phpMyFAQ versions prior to 4.1.2 Description An unauthenticated SQL injection exists in the BuiltinCaptcha::garbageCollector and BuiltinCaptcha::saveCaptcha methods. The issue occurs when unsanitized User-Agent headers are interpolated into...

PT-2026-41491

Summary Client::deleteClientFolder in phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Instance/Client.php:583 takes a URL from the caller, strips the https:// prefix, and passes the remainder to Filesystem::deleteDirectory relative to the multisite clientFolder. No path-traversal validation runs. An admin with the INSTANC...

PT-2026-41498

Summary CurrentUser::setTokenData in phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/User/CurrentUser.php at lines 515-534 builds a SQL UPDATE statement with sprintf and interpolates OAuth token fields refresh token, access token, code verifier, and json encode$token'jwt' without calling $db-escape. Sibling methods...

PT-2026-41482

Summary A stored XSS vulnerability in the comment rendering pipeline allows an authenticated user to inject JavaScript that executes for every visitor of an affected FAQ or News page. An attacker with a registered account can steal admin session cookies and take over the application. Details...

PT-2026-41478

Summary The TagController::delete endpoint at DELETE /admin/api/content/tags/tagId only verifies that the user is logged in userIsAuthenticated, but does not check any permission. Any authenticated user — including regular non-admin frontend users — can delete any tag by ID. This contrasts with...

PT-2026-41495

Summary A review of phpMyFAQ-main uncovered an authorization issue in the admin-api routes. Several backend endpoints only check whether the caller is logged in. They do not verify that the caller actually has backend or administrative privileges. As a result, a normal frontend user can access AP...

PT-2026-41508

Summary The SvgSanitizer::decodeAllEntities method limits recursive entity decoding to 5 iterations. By wrapping each character of javascript in an href attribute value with 5 levels of & encoding around numeric HTML entities e.g., amp;amp;amp;106; for j, an attacker can bypass both isSafe...

PT-2026-41493

Summary AbstractAdministrationController::userHasPermission catches the ForbiddenException thrown when a user lacks a specific permission, sends a "forbidden" HTML page via $response-send, but does not terminate execution. The calling controller method continues to execute, fetches protected data...

📄 phpMyFAQ 4.0.16 Improper Authorization

phpMyFAQ versions 4.0.16 and below suffer from an improper authorization vulnerability. Exploit Title: phpMyFAQ = 4.0.16 - Improper Authorization Google Dork: N/A Date: 2026-01-23 Exploit Author: GUIA BRAHIM FOUAD Vendor Homepage: https://www.phpmyfaq.de/ Software Link:...

phpMyFAQ 4.0.16 - Improper Authorization

Exploit Title: phpMyFAQ = 4.0.16 - Improper Authorization Google Dork: N/A Date: 2026-01-23 Exploit Author: GUIA BRAHIM FOUAD Vendor Homepage: https://www.phpmyfaq.de/ Software Link: https://www.phpmyfaq.de/download/ Version: = 4.0.16 REQUIRED Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04, Apache 2.4.52, PHP 8.2.x,...

PhpMyFAQ Has A LIKE Wildcard Injection In Search.php — Unescaped % And _ Metacharacters Enable Broad Content Disclosure

Summary The "searchCustomPages" method in "phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Search.php" uses "realescapestring" via "escape" to sanitize the search term before embedding it in LIKE clauses. However, "realescapestring" does not escape SQL LIKE metacharacters "%" match any sequence and "" match any single...

CVE-2026-34729

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, there is a stored XSS vulnerability via Regex Bypass in Filter::removeAttributes. This issue has been patched in version 4.1.1...

CVE-2026-34974

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, the regex-based SVG sanitizer in phpMyFAQ SvgSanitizer.php can be bypassed using HTML entity encoding in javascript: URLs within SVG attributes. Any user with editfaq permission can upload a malicious SVG that executes...

CVE-2026-34973

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, the searchCustomPages method in phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Search.php uses realescapestring via escape to sanitize the search term before embedding it in LIKE clauses. However, realescapestring does not escape SQL LIKE...

CVE-2026-32629

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, an unauthenticated attacker can submit a guest FAQ with an email address that is syntactically valid per RFC 5321 quoted local part yet contains raw HTML — for example ""@evil.com. PHP's FILTERVALIDATEEMAIL accepts this email...

CVE-2026-34728

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, the MediaBrowserController::index method handles file deletion for the media browser. When the fileRemove action is triggered, the user-supplied name parameter is concatenated with the base upload directory path without any...