CVE-2026-111892
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs
Summary
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user/password/update and user/password/reset endpoints. Unauthenticated attackers can send unlimited reset requests to flood a registered user's inbox with reset emails, exhausting mailer and server resources.
Risk Assessment
An unauthenticated attacker can exhaust mailer and server resources and flood user inboxes with password reset emails, disrupting normal operations and enabling denial-of-service style abuse.
Recommendation
Upgrade phpMyFAQ to 4.2.0-beta or later; if upgrade is not possible, enforce rate limiting at the web server or reverse proxy level for password reset endpoints.
Other vulnerabilities in phpMyFAQ
See all- CVE-2026-56736High
phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in versions prior to 4.2.0-alpha allows any unauthenticated user (or low-privileged registered user) to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's browser when they review or edit a user-submitted FAQ entry. This leads to admin account takeover via session theft.
- CVE-2026-57994Medium
A vulnerability in phpMyFAQ before version 4.1.5 allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve inactive (draft or review-only) FAQ content due to inconsistent filtering in public API endpoints.
- CVE-2026-57961Low
phpMyFAQ before version 4.1.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the concatenatePaths() function in Wrapper.php. An authenticated user with FAQ editing privileges can store crafted HTML with image paths that are processed during PDF generation. Lack of path canonicalization and root-directory containment validation may allow reading files outside the intended content directory.
- CVE-2017-15808High
In phpMyFaq before version 2.9.9, there is a CSRF vulnerability in admin/ajax.config.php.
- CVE-2017-15735High
In phpMyFAQ before version 2.9.9, there is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that allows modification of a glossary.
- CVE-2017-15734High
In phpMyFAQ before version 2.9.9, there is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in admin/stat.main.php.
- CVE-2017-15733High
In phpMyFAQ before version 2.9.9, there is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in admin/ajax.attachment.php and admin/att.main.php.
- CVE-2017-15732High
In phpMyFAQ before version 2.9.9, there is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in admin/news.php.
- CVE-2017-15731High
In phpMyFAQ before version 2.9.9, there is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in admin/stat.adminlog.php.
- CVE-2017-15730High
In phpMyFAQ before version 2.9.9, there is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in admin/stat.ratings.php.
Original NVD description (English source)
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user/password/update and user/password/reset endpoints. Unauthenticated attackers can send unlimited reset requests to flood a registered user's inbox with reset emails, exhausting mailer and server resources.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS