{"id":"CVE-2026-111901","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-111901","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:02:24.697Z","title":"phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints.","description":"phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints. Attackers can send concurrent GET requests that load and process all database records into PHP memory, exhausting CPU and memory to crash the server.","published":"2026-10-17T19:16:32.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T15:16:56.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/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-400"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00415,"percentile":0.35537,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-18","score":0.00343,"percentile":0.263}]},"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 (0.41%). 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":"2026-10-17T19:16:32.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.7","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-17T19:16:31.953Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.7)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m42f-6p37-2c79","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-unauthenticated-dos-via-api-pagination","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m42f-6p37-2c79","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111901","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."}