🛡️ CVE-2023-0311 — phpmyfaq

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

phpMyFAQ Improper Authentication vulnerability

Improper Authentication in GitHub repository thorsten/phpmyfaq prior to 3.1.10.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-0311 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2023-0311 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • phpmyfaq (fixed in 3.1.10)
  • thorsten/phpmyfaq (fixed in 3.1.10)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 January 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
huntr.dev
github.com
huntr.dev

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyfaq — 3.1.10
thorsten/phpmyfaq — 3.1.10

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