What is GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2?

GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. phpMyFAQ from 4.2.0-alpha.2 before 4.2.0-beta contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2 cover?

GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-111890. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2?

GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2HighCVSS 5.5

phpMyFAQ from 4.2.0-alpha.2 before 4.2.0-beta contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 17, 2026

Last Modified

October 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-111890 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-3666-fmjj-qm5h
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111890
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha.2-before-4.2.0-beta-privilege-escalation-via-updateuserrights
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x3mg-fj9x-7cq2