EUVD-2026-322437

fkie_cve-2026-46364

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in BuiltinCaptcha::garbageCollector() and BuiltinCaptcha::saveCaptcha() methods that interpolate unsanitized User-Agent headers into DELETE and INSERT queries. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the public GET /api/captcha endpoint by crafting malicious User-Agent headers to perform time-based blind SQL injection, extracting sensitive data including user credentials, admin tokens, and SMTP credentials from the database.

GHSA-289f-fq7w-6q2w — phpMyFAQ has unauthenticated SQL injection via User-Agent header in BuiltinCaptcha

Affected: Packagist: thorsten/phpmyfaq, Packagist: phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq

## Summary

`BuiltinCaptcha::garbageCollector()` and `BuiltinCaptcha::saveCaptcha()` at `phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Captcha/BuiltinCaptcha.php:298` and `:330` interpolate the `User-Agent` header and client IP address into DELETE and INSERT queries with `sprintf` and no escaping. Both methods run on every hit to the public `GET /api/captcha` endpoint, which requires no authentication. An unauthenticated attacker sets the `User-Agent` header to a crafted SQL payload and runs `SLEEP()`, `BENCHMARK()`, or time-based blind extraction against the database that backs phpMyFAQ. Verified live against 4.2.0-alpha (master at `b9f25109`): baseline request 147 ms, request with `User-Agent: x' OR SLEEP(2) OR 'x` 4.09 s (two `SLEEP(2)` calls, one per vulnerable sink).

## Details

`phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Captcha/BuiltinCaptcha.php:112` populates two private fields from untrusted HTTP input at construction time:

```php $this->userAgent = $request->headers->get('user-agent'); $this->ip = $request->getClientIp(); ```

Both fields are then dropped into `sprintf()` SQL templates without ever touching `Database::escape()` or a prepared statement.

`garbageCollector()` at line 298 (called on every captcha request via `getCaptchaImage()`):

```php $delete = sprintf( " DELETE FROM %sfaqcaptcha WHERE useragent = '%s' AND language = '%s' AND ip = '%s'", Database::getTablePrefix(), $this->userAgent, // unescaped $this->configurati…

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GHSA-289f-fq7w-6q2w — phpMyFAQ has unauthenticated SQL injection via User-Agent header in BuiltinCaptcha