CVE-2026-111906

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta CSRF in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Admin API Index Operations

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

Description

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Elasticsearch and OpenSearch administration API endpoints, which do not validate a CSRF token for the create, drop, and import actions. Attackers can lure a user with CONFIGURATION_EDIT permission to a malicious page that triggers these actions, deleting search indexes, forcing re-indexing, or exhausting resources.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
phpMyFAQthorsten	before 4.1.9Affected 4.1.9Not affected
phpMyFAQthorsten	4.2.0-alpha to before 4.2.0-betaAffected 4.2.0-betaNot affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-cmvh-fpmf-8gfx)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta CSRF in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Admin API Index Operationsthird-party-advisory

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