phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Elasticsearch and OpenSearch administration API endpoints, which do not validate a CSRF token for the create, drop, and import actions. Attackers can lure a user with CONFIGURATION_EDIT permission to a malicious page that triggers these actions, deleting search indexes, forcing re-indexing, or exhausting resources.
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| Description | phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Elasticsearch and OpenSearch administration API endpoints, which do not validate a CSRF token for the create, drop, and import actions. Attackers can lure a user with CONFIGURATION_EDIT permission to a malicious page that triggers these actions, deleting search indexes, forcing re-indexing, or exhausting resources. | |
| Title | phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta CSRF in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Admin API Index Operations | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-352 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-10-17T18:46:25.460Z
Updated: 2026-10-19T14:52:20.126Z
Reserved: 2026-10-17T12:18:07.314Z
Link: CVE-2026-111906
Updated: 2026-10-19T14:52:08.660Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-17T19:16:32.723
Modified: 2026-10-19T15:16:55.920
Link: CVE-2026-111906
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