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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-34728 EUVD-2026-18258GHSA-38m8-xrfj-v38x

phpMyFAQ: Path Traversal - Arbitrary File Deletion in MediaBrowserController

Published Apr 2, 2026 · Updated Apr 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
thorsten phpMyFAQ < 4.1.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq < 4.1.1 4.1.1 GHSA-38m8-xrfj-v38x

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