High 8.7Published Apr 2, 2026

CVE-2026-34728phpMyFAQ: Path Traversal - Arbitrary File Deletion in MediaBrowserController

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 7:00 PM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 8.7 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Apr 2, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

thorsten phpMyFAQ thorsten:phpmyfaq (from the name)	before 4.1.1	CNA record
phpmyfaq phpmyfaq phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq	before 4.1.1	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-38m8-xrfj-v38x	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, mitigation, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/releases/tag/4.1.1	x-refsource-misc, product

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