CVE-2026-56396

Published June 21st, 2026

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CVSS v3

8.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

Description

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.4 contains missing authorization vulnerabilities in editUser() and updateUserRights() endpoints that allow authenticated administrators to escalate privileges. Non-SuperAdmin users with edit_user permission can set is_superadmin flag or grant arbitrary rights to escalate to SuperAdmin access.

thorsten/phpMyFAQ

phpMyFAQ - Open Source FAQ web application for PHP 8.3+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases

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