{"id":"CVE-2026-111890","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-111890","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:53:21.384Z","title":"phpMyFAQ from 4.2.0-alpha.2 before 4.2.0-beta contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in UserController::updateUserRights that drops per-right language restrictions when rights are re-granted.","description":"phpMyFAQ from 4.2.0-alpha.2 before 4.2.0-beta contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in UserController::updateUserRights that drops per-right language restrictions when rights are re-granted. Administrators holding USER_EDIT can submit language-scoped rights to the update-rights API, including for themselves, to gain unrestricted FAQ create, edit, and publish access across all languages.","published":"2026-10-17T19:16:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T15:16:56.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/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/M"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00283,"percentile":0.20665,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-18","score":0.00226,"percentile":0.12424}]},"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 (0.28%). 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":"2026-10-17T19:16:30.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.0","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-17T19:16:30.393Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.0)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-3666-fmjj-qm5h","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha.2-before-4.2.0-beta-privilege-escalation-via-updateuserrights","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-3666-fmjj-qm5h","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111890","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."}