# CVE-2026-32629: phpMyFAQ: Stored XSS via Unsanitized Email Field in Admin FAQ Editor

- Also known as: GHSA-98GW-W575-H2PH
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.1.1
- Published: 2026-04-02 · Updated: 2026-04-02

## Affected

- thorsten phpMyFAQ: fixed in 4.1.1
- thorsten/phpmyfaq (Packagist): fixed in 4.1.1
- phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq (Packagist): fixed in 4.1.1

## Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, an unauthenticated attacker can submit a guest FAQ with an email address that is syntactically valid per RFC 5321 (quoted local part) yet contains raw HTML — for example "<script>alert(1)</script>"@evil.com. PHP's FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL accepts this email as valid. The email is stored in the database without HTML sanitization and later rendered in the admin FAQ editor template using Twig's |raw filter, which bypasses auto-escaping entirely. This issue has been patched in version 4.1.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on thorsten phpMyFAQ, thorsten/phpmyfaq, phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq, upgrade to a fixed version (4.1.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-98gw-w575-h2ph
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/releases/tag/4.1.1

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