CVE-2026-111892
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated…
- Risk score
- 42/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 17 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Upgrade the product to 4.2.0 or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
References
Original 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.
Last activity 17 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.