phpMyFAQ before 4.1.9 and 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Elasticsearch and OpenSearch administration API endpoints, which do not validate a CSRF token for the create, drop, and import actions. Attackers can lure a user with CONFIGURATION_EDIT permission to a malicious page that triggers these actions, deleting search indexes, forcing re-indexing, or exhausting resources.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.1NVD modified 2026-10-19 15:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 3
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-cmvh-fpmf-8gfx
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-before-4.1.9-and-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-csrf-in-elasticsearch-opensearch-admin-api-index-operations
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-cmvh-fpmf-8gfx