CVE-2026-111888

medium

Description

phpMyFAQ from 4.0.0 before 4.1.9 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows delegated admins lacking the editnews right to modify news by calling PUT /admin/api/news/update, which checks NEWS_DELETE instead of NEWS_EDIT. Attackers holding addnews and delnews can read the update-news CSRF token from their own cookie and rewrite any news item's header, body, author, link and active flag shown on the public front page.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.0.0-before-4.1.9-incorrect-authorization-via-news-update-api

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-287v-6c6j-x9f7

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-103331

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-17

Updated: 2026-10-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium