CVE-2026-57961

medium

Description

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a potential authenticated path traversal vulnerability in the concatenatePaths() function within src/phpMyFAQ/Export/Pdf/Wrapper.php. A user with FAQ editing privileges can store HTML containing crafted image paths that are processed during PDF generation. The path resolution logic locates the substring "content" within a user-controlled path using strpos(); when "content" is absent, strpos() returns false, which becomes 0 when cast to an integer, preserving the entire attacker-controlled path. This path is later passed to file_get_contents() without canonicalization or root-directory containment validation, which may allow reading of files outside the intended content directory.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-authenticated-path-traversal-in-pdf-export-via-concatenatepaths-function

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-88g4-74f3-63x9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-10

Updated: 2026-07-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:N/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:L/I:N/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:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0027