MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-111906 (CVSS 7.1)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 17, 2026Risk 23/100
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.
Technical details
CVSS
7.1
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:Passive
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