Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 17, 2026· Updated Oct 17, 2026
CVE-2026-111906
CVE-2026-111906
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.
Affected products
1- Range: <4.1.9, <4.2.0-beta
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2News mentions
1- PhpMyFAQ: 25 Vulnerabilities Including Critical Auth Bypass Disclosed TogetherVypr Intelligence · Oct 17, 2026