CVE-2026-75919

6.9 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.9) in phpmyfaq phpmyfaq. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in SetupController that allows unauthenticated attackers to run database migrations and create configuration backups when maintenance mode is enabled. Attackers can call POST /api/setup/update-database and POST /api/setup/backup endpoints to execute database updates, disable maintenance mode, and extract database credentials from generated ZIP archives.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.9 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-306
Published: 2026-08-19
Modified: 2026-09-01
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq

References

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-f96w-7fx2-79c8
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-before-authentication-bypass-via-setup-api
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-f96w-7fx2-79c8

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