{"id":80868,"date":"2026-06-21T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-56396-phpmyfaq-privilege-escalation-via-missing-authorization-in-edituser-and-updateuserrights\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:27:03","slug":"cve-2026-56396-phpmyfaq-privilege-escalation-via-missing-authorization-in-edituser-and-updateuserrights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-56396-phpmyfaq-privilege-escalation-via-missing-authorization-in-edituser-and-updateuserrights\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-56396 &#8211; phpMyFAQ &#8211; Privilege Escalation via Missing Authorization in editUser() and updateUserRights()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-56396<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 21, 2026, 1:27 p.m. | 2\u00a0hours, 16\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :phpMyFAQ before 4.1.4 contains missing authorization vulnerabilities in editUser() and updateUserRights() endpoints that allow authenticated administrators to escalate privileges. Non-SuperAdmin users with edit_user permission can set is_superadmin flag or grant arbitrary rights to escalate to SuperAdmin access.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-56396 Published : June 21, 2026, 1:27 p.m. | 2\u00a0hours, 16\u00a0minutes ago Description :phpMyFAQ before 4.1.4 contains missing authorization vulnerabilities in editUser() and updateUserRights() endpoints that allow authenticated administrators to escalate privileges. Non-SuperAdmin users with edit_user permission can set is_superadmin flag or grant arbitrary rights to escalate to SuperAdmin access. Severity: 8.8 | &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}