CVE-2026-45008: Thorsten Phpmyfaq

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in Client::deleteClientFolder that allows admins with INSTANCE_DELETE permission to delete arbitrary directories. Attackers can submit traversal sequences like https://../../../<path> in the client URL parameter to recursively delete directories outside the intended clientFolder scope.

Affected products

• Thorsten Phpmyfaq: before 4.1.2 (fixed in 4.1.2)

Published 2026-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.