CVE-2026-46360 (GCVE-0-2026-46360)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-15 18:36 – Updated: 2026-05-15 20:16
VLAI?
Title
phpMyFAQ - Stored XSS via Entity Decoding Depth Limit Bypass in SVG Sanitizer
Summary
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.2 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in SvgSanitizer::decodeAllEntities() that limits recursive entity decoding to 5 iterations, allowing attackers to bypass sanitization. Authenticated users with FAQ_EDIT permission can upload malicious SVG files with deeply nested ampersand encoding around numeric HTML entities to reconstruct javascript: URLs, which execute arbitrary JavaScript when clicked by other users viewing the uploaded SVG.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
thorsten phpmyfaq Affected: 0 , < 4.1.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.1.2 (semver)
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Date Public ?
2026-04-28 00:00
Credits
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