CVE-2026-34728

HIGH

phpMyFAQ: Path Traversal - Arbitrary File Deletion in MediaBrowserController

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, the MediaBrowserController::index() method handles file deletion for the media browser. When the fileRemove action is triggered, the user-supplied name parameter is concatenated with the base upload directory path without any path traversal validation. The FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS filter only encodes HTML special characters (&, ', ", <, >) and characters with ASCII value < 32, and does not prevent directory traversal sequences like ../. Additionally, the endpoint does not validate CSRF tokens, making it exploitable via CSRF attacks. This issue has been patched in version 4.1.1.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.7
EPSS 0.0069
EPSS Percentile 48.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (3)
phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq < 4.1.1
phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq 0 - 4.1.1Packagist
thorsten/phpMyFAQ < 4.1.1
Published Apr 02, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 02, 2026