thorsten phpMyFAQ up to 4.1.7 TOTP remove-twofactor removeTwofactorConfig twofactor_enabled improper authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in thorsten phpMyFAQ up to 4.1.7. Affected by this vulnerability is the function removeTwofactorConfig of the file /api/user/remove-twofactor of the component TOTP. Such manipulation of the argument twofactor_enabled leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-85590. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in thorsten phpMyFAQ up to 4.1.7 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function removeTwofactorConfig of the file /api/user/remove-twofactor of the component TOTP. The manipulation of the argument twofactor_enabled with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.8 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in its two-factor authentication (TOTP) disable functionality. The removeTwofactorConfig() handler (reachable via POST /api/user/remove-twofactor) verifies only that the user is logged in and that a valid CSRF token is supplied, then disables TOTP without requiring password re-entry or a current TOTP code. The same downgrade is also reachable inline via PUT /api/user/data/update, which accepts a plain twofactor_enabled form field under the same session+CSRF-only guard. An attacker who has hijacked a user's session can silently strip two-factor protection from any account, including administrator accounts, after which password-only authentication succeeds.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-85590 since 09/04/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 4.1.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• thorsten

Name

• phpMyFAQ

Version

• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.1.6
• 4.1.7

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/

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