CVE-2025-59943 affects phpMyFAQ versions 4.0-nightly-2025-10-03 and below, stemming from a lack of unique email enforcement during user registration, allowing multiple accounts to share the same email address. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) has a low attack complexity and can lead to account ambiguity, potential privilege escalation, or account takeover due to email's role in authentication and administrative functions. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness. Organizations using affected phpMyFAQ versions should upgrade to 4.0.13 immediately to mitigate this risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phpmyfaq:phpmyfaq:4.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.