What is GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq?

GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq cover?

GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-111892. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq?

GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqqMediumCVSS 6.5

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 17, 2026

Last Modified

October 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-111892 →

📋 Description

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user/password/update and user/password/reset endpoints. Unauthenticated attackers can send unlimited reset requests to flood a registered user's inbox with reset emails, exhausting mailer and server resources.

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-p2cj-r7vv-fr2r
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111892
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-missing-rate-limiting-on-password-reset-endpoints
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq