Brute Force Affecting thorsten/phpmyfaq package, versions <4.1.2
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- published10 May 2026
- disclosed6 May 2026
- creditadrgs
Introduced: 6 May 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-307 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
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 Brute Force via the check process. An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative access by submitting arbitrary user-id and token values to the endpoint without prior authentication, allowing brute-force attempts of 2FA codes without rate limiting or session binding.