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Low · 2.7 CVE-2026-57961 EUVD-2026-42891GHSA-88g4-74f3-63x9GHSA-j3vx-7xgh-q759

phpMyFAQ - Authenticated Path Traversal in PDF Export via concatenatePaths Function

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 10, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
phpMyFAQ phpMyFAQ < 4.1.5 4.1.5

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq >= 4.0.0-alpha, < 4.1.5 4.1.5 GHSA-88g4-74f3-63x9
Packagist thorsten/phpmyfaq >= 4.0.0-alpha, < 4.1.5 4.1.5 GHSA-88g4-74f3-63x9

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