CVE-2026-85589: Thorsten Phpmyfaq

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

phpMyFAQ before 4.2.0-alpha.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the admin dashboard API endpoints searches and content-health that enforce only authentication without permission checks. Any authenticated user can access these endpoints to read site-wide search statistics and content-health counters regardless of their privilege level.

Affected products

• Thorsten Phpmyfaq: before 4.2.0-alpha.2 (fixed in 4.2.0-alpha.2)

Published 2026-09-04. Last modified 2026-09-08.