CVE-2026-111890

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-111890

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-111890.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-111890

Aliases

GHSA-3666-fmjj-qm5h

Published

2026-10-17T18:46:14Z

Modified

2026-10-20T02:31:08Z

Severity

7.0 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha.2 before 4.2.0-beta Privilege Escalation via updateUserRights

Details

phpMyFAQ from 4.2.0-alpha.2 before 4.2.0-beta contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in UserController::updateUserRights that drops per-right language restrictions when rights are re-granted. Administrators holding USER_EDIT can submit language-scoped rights to the update-rights API, including for themselves, to gain unrestricted FAQ create, edit, and publish access across all languages.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-269"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/111xxx/CVE-2026-111890.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/thorsten/phpmyfaq

Events

Introduced

7a9aea18c10c1ff245a8f833e09af2c494403c05

Fixed

e137c1e017b15ffa01181a2380b81e1aea5ae1ad

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "4.2.0-alpha.2"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "4.2.0-beta"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

4.*

4.1-nightly-2026-08-21

4.1-nightly-2026-08-24

4.1-nightly-2026-08-25

4.1-nightly-2026-08-26

4.1-nightly-2026-08-27

4.1-nightly-2026-08-28

4.1-nightly-2026-08-29

4.1-nightly-2026-08-30

4.1-nightly-2026-08-31

4.1-nightly-2026-09-01

4.1-nightly-2026-09-02

4.1-nightly-2026-09-03

4.1-nightly-2026-09-04

4.1-nightly-2026-09-05

4.1-nightly-2026-09-06

4.1-nightly-2026-09-07

4.1-nightly-2026-09-08

4.1-nightly-2026-09-09

4.1-nightly-2026-09-10

4.1-nightly-2026-09-11

4.1-nightly-2026-09-12

4.1-nightly-2026-09-13

4.1-nightly-2026-09-14

4.1-nightly-2026-09-15

4.1-nightly-2026-09-16

4.1-nightly-2026-09-17

4.1-nightly-2026-09-18

4.1-nightly-2026-09-20

4.1-nightly-2026-09-21

4.1-nightly-2026-09-22

4.1-nightly-2026-09-23

4.1-nightly-2026-09-24

4.1-nightly-2026-09-25

4.1-nightly-2026-09-26

4.1-nightly-2026-09-27

4.1-nightly-2026-09-28

4.1-nightly-2026-09-29

4.1-nightly-2026-09-30

4.1-nightly-2026-10-01

4.1-nightly-2026-10-02

4.1-nightly-2026-10-03

4.2.0-alpha.2

Other

development-nightly-2026-08-21

development-nightly-2026-08-24

development-nightly-2026-08-25

development-nightly-2026-08-26

development-nightly-2026-08-27

development-nightly-2026-08-28

development-nightly-2026-08-29

development-nightly-2026-08-30

development-nightly-2026-08-31

development-nightly-2026-09-01

development-nightly-2026-09-02

development-nightly-2026-09-03

development-nightly-2026-09-04

development-nightly-2026-09-05

development-nightly-2026-09-06

development-nightly-2026-09-07

development-nightly-2026-09-08

development-nightly-2026-09-09

development-nightly-2026-09-10

development-nightly-2026-09-11

development-nightly-2026-09-12

development-nightly-2026-09-13

development-nightly-2026-09-14

development-nightly-2026-09-15

development-nightly-2026-09-16

development-nightly-2026-09-17

development-nightly-2026-09-20

development-nightly-2026-09-21

development-nightly-2026-09-22

development-nightly-2026-09-23

development-nightly-2026-09-24

development-nightly-2026-09-25

development-nightly-2026-09-26

development-nightly-2026-09-27

development-nightly-2026-09-28

development-nightly-2026-09-29

development-nightly-2026-09-30

development-nightly-2026-10-01

development-nightly-2026-10-02

development-nightly-2026-10-03

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-111890.json"