CVE-2026-48488: phpMyFAQ has Weak Cryptography - SHA1 for Password Hashing

Summary

Attachment passwords are hashed using SHA-1, a cryptographically broken algorithm. SHA-1 has been vulnerable to collision attacks since 2017 (SHAttered).

Details

Affected File : phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/Attachment/AbstractAttachment.php

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Impact

- An attacker can generate SHA-1 collisions to bypass attachment protection - Risk of password cracking if database is compromised - Estimated cracking time: < 1 minute for standard attachment

Solution

Use bcrypt:

public function setPassword(string $password): void { $this->passwordHash = passwordhash($password, PASSWORDBCRYPT); }

public function verifyPassword(string $plainPassword): bool { return passwordverify($plainPassword, $this->passwordHash); }