CVE-2026-111892

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-10-17. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-103327 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (VulnCheck) lists thorsten phpMyFAQ versions 4.2.0-alpha up to but not including 4.2.0-beta as affected, and thorsten phpMyFAQ versions 4.2.0-beta as unaffected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user/password/update and user/password/reset endpoints. Unauthenticated attackers can send unlimited reset requests to flood a registered user's inbox with reset emails, exhausting mailer and server resources.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5MEDIUMhigh confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity65% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
25th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-28). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 17, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 17, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. No fix on record yet. Sources: github.
Web page

phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Missing Rate Limiting on Password-Reset Endpoints | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-missing-rate-limiting-on-password-reset-endpoints
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)🟡 PoC Available

phpMyFAQ — Password-Reset Endpoints Have No Effective Rate Limiting · Advisory · thorsten/phpMyFAQ · GitHub

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-p2cj-r7vv-fr2r

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-111892(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 28× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  3. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  4. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  5. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  6. 2026-10-29 14:40 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-29 14:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  8. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  9. 2026-10-28 14:25 UTCOSV refresh
  10. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  11. 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
  13. 2026-10-25 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  16. 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  17. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  18. 2026-10-20 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  19. 2026-10-19 22:26 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-19 22:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  21. 2026-10-19 21:44 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-19 21:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wmmm-2vwq-3hqq · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  23. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  24. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  25. 2026-10-18 05:05 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-17 19:28 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-17 18:56 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 6.5 MEDIUM
  3. 2026-10-17 18:54 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-111892?
CVE-2026-111892 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 17, 2026. phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta lacks effective rate limiting on the unauthenticated user/password/update and user/password/reset endpoints. Unauthenticated attackers can send unlimited reset requests to flood a registered user's inbox with reset emails, exhausting mailer and server…
When was CVE-2026-111892 made public?
CVE-2026-111892 was made public on October 3, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 17, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-111892 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-111892 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (25th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-111892?
CVE-2026-111892 has a CVSS base score of 6.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-111892?
No fix for CVE-2026-111892 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's CNA (VulnCheck) lists thorsten phpMyFAQ versions 4.2.0-alpha up to but not including 4.2.0-beta as affected, and thorsten phpMyFAQ versions 4.2.0-beta as unaffected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-111892 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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