CVE-2026-56737

HIGHPre-NVD 8.18.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-24. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-85931 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8gpw-xvpf-hvx5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines 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: 0.5%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Versions 3.2.0 through 4.1.5 contain an authentication bypass in its public two-factor authentication verification flow: an unauthenticated attacker can submit an account’s numeric user ID and a valid or brute-forced six-digit TOTP code without first authenticating with the account password, allowing takeover of any 2FA-enabled account, including administrator accounts. Version 4.1.6 is patched by binding TOTP verification to a session established after successful password authentication and limiting failed TOTP attempts. No official workaround is documented; affected installations should upgrade to 4.1.6 or later.

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
8.1HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
52
EG Risk 52/100

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)
Severity81% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 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.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
44th
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 (8.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). 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, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.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, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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

September 24, 2026

Last Modified

September 29, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 24, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 6a69f6e2142f (thorsten/phpMyFAQ)

Patch available: thorsten/phpMyFAQ 4.1-nightly-2026-09-09 (contains commit 6a69f6e2142f)

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/6a69f6e2142fde722165c65b7e0a49f3176e87be
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 5097dff341fb (thorsten/phpMyFAQ)

Patch available: thorsten/phpMyFAQ 4.1-nightly-2026-09-09 (contains commit 5097dff341fb)

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/5097dff341fb01e93e8561e7261b3ae657df715a
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 410208b90f1d (thorsten/phpMyFAQ)

Patch available: thorsten/phpMyFAQ 4.1-nightly-2026-09-09 (contains commit 410208b90f1d)

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/410208b90f1d01534812ac5203d3e8d9c7bd591f
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Two-factor authentication login bypasses the password factor · Advisory · thorsten/phpMyFAQ · GitHub

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-8gpw-xvpf-hvx5

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56737(1)

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

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
composerphpmyfaq/phpmyfaq @ 4.1.6 (fixes >= 3.2.0, < 4.1.6)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 1 ecosystem)
Packagist(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq3.2.0 ... 4.1.5 (58 versions)
  • 3.2.0 up to 4.1.6: fixed in 4.1.6
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thorsten/phpmyfaq3.2.0 ... 4.1.5 (58 versions)
  • 3.2.0 up to 4.1.6: fixed in 4.1.6
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 49× 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. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 07:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8gpw-xvpf-hvx5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  3. 2026-11-01 07:42 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-11-01 03:18 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  10. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  11. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
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  15. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
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  4. 2026-10-12 15:54 UTCEG score recompute
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  43. 2026-09-24 15:17 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 8.1 HIGH
  44. 2026-09-24 15:16 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-56737?
CVE-2026-56737 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 24, 2026. phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Versions 3.2.0 through 4.1.5 contain an authentication bypass in its public two-factor authentication verification flow: an unauthenticated attacker can submit an account’s numeric user ID and a valid or brute-forced six-digit TOTP code without first…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-56737 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-56737 was published on September 24, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 29, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-56737 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-56737 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (44th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-56737?
CVE-2026-56737 has a CVSS base score of 8.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-56737?
A fix for CVE-2026-56737 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-56737 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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