{"id":"CVE-2026-109573","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-109573","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:58:16.114Z","title":"phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 contains an SQL injection vulnerability in PdoMysql::escape(), which escapes single quotes with backslashes that are treated literally when MySQL or MariaDB runs in NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES mode.","description":"phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 contains an SQL injection vulnerability in PdoMysql::escape(), which escapes single quotes with backslashes that are treated literally when MySQL or MariaDB runs in NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES mode. Unauthenticated attackers can send a Unicode right single quotation mark in the search parameter of api/autocomplete, which is normalized to an ASCII quote, to read credentials and configuration secrets, modify records, or drop tables.","published":"2026-10-12T23:17:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-13T14:17:27.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9.2,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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/M"},"cwe":["CWE-89"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00338,"percentile":0.26996,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-13","score":0.00263,"percentile":0.16795}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-12T23:17:23.000Z","detail":{"score":"9.2","severity":"CRITICAL","publishedAt":"2026-10-12T23:17:22.557Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.2)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-98p2-cg7p-h385","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-before-4.1.9-sql-injection-via-api-autocomplete-search-endpoint","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-98p2-cg7p-h385","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109573","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}