CVE-2014-6049
phpMyFAQ before 2.8.13 allows remote authenticated users with admin privileges to bypass authorization via a crafted instance ID parameter.
- 2.7LowCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
phpMyFAQ before 2.8.13 allows remote authenticated users with admin privileges to bypass authorization via a crafted instance ID parameter.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- phpMyFAQ 2.8.x - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34580webapps, phppublished 8 Sept 2014Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- http://techdefencelabs.com/security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.phpmyfaq.de/security/advisory-2014-09-16 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-5937 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-6049)Record last updated .