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GHSA-jrc5-w569-h7h5: phpMyFAQ: Ordinary Authenticated User Can Access Admin-Only API Endpoints Due to Insufficient Authorization Check in phpMyFAQ

May 6, 2026

A review of phpMyFAQ-main uncovered an authorization issue in the admin-api routes.

Several backend endpoints only check whether the caller is logged in. They do not verify that the caller actually has backend or administrative privileges. As a result, a normal frontend user can access API endpoints that are clearly intended for administrative use.

During local reproduction, a regular user account was able to request /admin/api/index.php/dashboard/versions and receive a successful response from the backend management API.

This issue does not appear to give direct write access in the affected paths that were confirmed, so it should be treated as a backend information disclosure and privilege boundary failure rather than full admin compromise.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jrc5-w569-h7h5
  • github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ
  • github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-jrc5-w569-h7h5

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.1.1 before 4.1.2, version 4.1.1

Fixed versions

  • 4.1.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.1.2 or above.

Impact 4.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Source file

packagist/thorsten/phpmyfaq/GHSA-jrc5-w569-h7h5.yml

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