GHSA-996g-x95h-p2f5HighCVSS 8.8
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in GroupController:...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🔗 References (4)
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-pg62-f8g4-4wqh
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57995
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-privilege-escalation-via-missing-self-rights-constraint-in-groupcontroller-updatepermissions
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-996g-x95h-p2f5