CVE-2026-111901

7.5 HIGHpublic exploit available

Published 2026-10-17 · Updated 2026-10-17

AI analysis for this CVE has not been generated yet. Raw NVD data is shown below.

NVD description

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints. Attackers can send concurrent GET requests that load and process all database records into PHP memory, exhausting CPU and memory to crash the server.

CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Public exploit & PoC references

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m42f-6p37-2c79

All references

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m42f-6p37-2c79
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-unauthenticated-dos-via-api-pagination

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