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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00132.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-cmvh-fpmf-8gfx cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-before-4.1.9-and-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-csrf-in-elasticsearch-opensearch-admin-api-index-operations cve-icon cve-icon
History

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta CSRF in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Admin API Index Operations
First Time appeared Phpmyfaq
Phpmyfaq phpmyfaq
Weaknesses CWE-352
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Phpmyfaq
Phpmyfaq phpmyfaq
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-19T14:52:20.126Z

Reserved: 2026-10-17T12:18:07.314Z

Link: CVE-2026-111906

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-19T14:52:08.660Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-17T19:16:32.723

Modified: 2026-10-19T15:16:55.920

Link: CVE-2026-111906

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Updated: 2026-10-17T22:15:06Z

Weaknesses