CVE-2026-57961CWE-22

phpMyFAQ - Authenticated Path Traversal in PDF Export via concatenatePaths Function

Medium · published July 10, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a potential authenticated path traversal vulnerability in the concatenatePaths() function within src/phpMyFAQ/Export/Pdf/Wrapper.php. A user with FAQ editing privileges can store HTML containing crafted image paths that are processed during PDF generation. The path resolution logic locates the substring "content" within a user-controlled path using strpos(); when "content" is absent, strpos() returns false, which becomes 0 when cast to an integer, preserving the entire attacker-controlled path. This path is later passed to file_get_contents() without canonicalization or root-directory containment validation, which may allow reading of files outside the intended content directory.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00399 · 32.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-07-10T13:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUL 13:58Z
    phpMyFAQ - Authenticated Path Traversal in PDF Export via concatenatePaths Function
    cvelistv5