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CVE-2026-111906: thorsten phpmyfaq Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS: 7.1v4.0HighDeferred
Published 17-10-2026Last modified 19-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-111906 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in thorsten phpmyfaq. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.13%
0%100%
Low · Change unavailable
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 17-10-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Elasticsearch and OpenSearch administration API endpoints, which do not validate a CSRF token for the create, drop, and import actions. Attackers can lure a user with CONFIGURATION_EDIT permission to a malicious page that triggers these actions, deleting search indexes, forcing re-indexing, or exhausting resources.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

2%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Change unavailable

Change unavailable

18-10-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.13%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Thorsten1 product
  • phpmyfaq< 4.1.9 | ≥ 4.2.0-alpha, < 4.2.0-beta

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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