Improper Privilege Management Affecting phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq package, versions <4.1.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHPMYFAQPHPMYFAQ-19428537
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed18 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-66399  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq to version 4.1.6 or higher.

Overview

phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq is a FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in the updateMembers process. An attacker can gain unauthorized user-management permissions by adding themselves to privileged groups without proper rights verification.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1