SQL Injection Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions <4.1.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-THORSTENPHPMYFAQ-16624461
  • published10 May 2026
  • disclosed6 May 2026
  • creditadrgs

Introduced: 6 May 2026

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-89  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade thorsten/phpmyfaq to version 4.1.2 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to SQL Injection via the BuiltinCaptcha process. An attacker can access sensitive data, modify or delete database records, and extract credential hashes by sending crafted HTTP requests with malicious User-Agent headers to the unauthenticated /api/captcha endpoint.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1