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CVE-2026-57995highCWE-269

phpMyFAQ - Privilege Escalation via Missing Self-Rights Constraint in GroupController::updatePermissions

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 62% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController::updatePermissions that allows GROUP_EDIT administrators to grant arbitrary rights to groups without verifying they hold those rights themselves. A delegated administrator can exploit this by assigning high-value permissions to a group they belong to, inheriting those rights and escalating privileges up to full administrative control.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
phpMyFAQ · phpMyFAQ