MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-111908 (CVSS 8.7)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 17, 2026Risk 37/100

phpMyFAQ 4.0.0 before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains a broken object-level authorization vulnerability in the PUT /api/v3.1/faq/update endpoint, which checks only the global edit_faq permission and does not verify access to the target FAQ. Authenticated users with edit_faq permission can supply the ID of a restricted FAQ they cannot view to modify its content, bypass moderation, and change its publication state.

Technical details

CVSS

8.7

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:None

Evidence and sources

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