CVE-2026-111901

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Unauthenticated DoS via API Pagination

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 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 uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints. Attackers can send concurrent GET requests that load and process all database records into PHP memory, exhausting CPU and memory to crash the server.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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-m42f-6p37-2c79)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Unauthenticated DoS via API Paginationthird-party-advisory

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