CVE-2026-45009

medium

Published 2026-05-15 · Modified 2026-05-28

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CVSS v3

4.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

5.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

VIR risk

4.3

Description

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains an insufficient authorization vulnerability in admin-api routes that allows authenticated ordinary users to access administrative endpoints by only checking login status instead of verifying backend privileges. Attackers with valid frontend user accounts can access sensitive backend operational information including dashboard versions, LDAP configuration, Elasticsearch statistics, and health-check data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

53%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Packagist	thorsten/phpmyfaq	`<4.1.2`
Packagist	phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq	`<4.1.2`
Packagist	phpMyFAQ/phpMyFAQ	`<4.1.2`	`4.1.2`
Packagist	thorsten/phpMyFAQ	`<4.1.2`	`4.1.2`
COMPOSER	thorsten/phpMyFAQ	`< 4.1.2`	`4.1.2`
COMPOSER	phpMyFAQ/phpMyFAQ	`< 4.1.2`	`4.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-863

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.