HIGHVulnerability
CVE-2026-76213
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.7 contains a brute-force vulnerability in the two-factor authentication step where the failure counter is session-scoped and reset on each successful password re-authentication. Attackers with a valid password can bypass the five-attempt limit by obtaining a fresh session cookie and repeatedly re-authenticating to reset the counter, enabling unbounded TOTP code guessing.
Properties
- severity
- HIGH
- score
- 7.4
- epss_score
- 0.00332
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-76213
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-19T14:17:47.330
- last_modified
- 2026-09-01T15:20:20.713
- epss_percentile
- 0.25846
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
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