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SCA: security update for phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq (GHSA-38m8-xrfj-v38x)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 439635

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, the
 MediaBrowserController::index() method handles file deletion for the media browser. When the fileRemove
 action is triggered, the user-supplied name parameter is concatenated with the base upload directory path
 without any path traversal validation. The FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS filter only encodes HTML special
 characters (&, ', ", <, >) and characters with ASCII value < 32, and does not prevent directory traversal
 sequences like ../. Additionally, the endpoint does not validate CSRF tokens, making it exploitable via
 CSRF attacks. This issue has been patched in version 4.1.1. (CVE-2026-34728)

Solution

Update the phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq library and its related packages to version 4.1.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38m8-xrfj-v38x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 439635

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.61

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34728

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34728

cwe: CWE-22