CVE-2026-111897

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Authorization Bypass in Attachment Administration Endpoints

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Oct 17, 2026
Updated: Oct 19, 2026
Reserved: Oct 17, 2026

Description

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows category-restricted editors to manage attachments of FAQs outside their categories by supplying arbitrary record IDs. Attackers in medium permission mode can send upload or delete requests with a target record_id or attachment ID to tamper with or remove files on unauthorized FAQs.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
phpMyFAQthorsten	4.2.0-alpha to before 4.2.0-betaAffected 4.2.0-betaNot affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-hj8v-cg6r-gg6q)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Authorization Bypass in Attachment Administration Endpointsthird-party-advisory

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