CVE-2026-76572

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.74.7—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 4.7 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.7; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
4.7EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 4.7Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A vulnerability was detected in pkp pkp-lib up to 3.3.0-22/3.4.0-10/3.5.0-4. The affected element is the function _transformPHP of the file classes/xslt/XSLTransformer.php. The manipulation results in xml external entity reference. The attack can be executed remotely. Upgrading to version 3.3.0-23, 3.4.0-11 and 3.5.0-5 is sufficient to fix this issue. The patch is identified as 78c699370ea43ae2784e1c4ace7c947d207f2b47. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

CVSS v3
4.7
EG Score
4.7(high)
EG Risk
21(Track)
EG Risk 21/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity47% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
27%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 19, 2026

Last Modified

August 20, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Aug 19, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_commit.
generic

GitHub - pkp/pkp-lib: The library used by PKP's applications OJS, OMP and OPS, open source software for scholarly publishing. · GitHub

https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/
github_commit

commit 78c699370ea4 (pkp/pkp-lib)

Fix landed in pkp/pkp-lib commit 78c699370ea4 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/commit/78c699370ea43ae2784e1c4ace7c947d207f2b47
generic

Disable external XML entity loading · Issue #12977 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/12977

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-76572(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 9× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-20 13:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-20 12:50 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-20 12:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-20 12:42 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-08-20 12:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-19 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-19 19:43 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-08-19 19:42 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-76572?
CVE-2026-76572 is a medium vulnerability published on August 19, 2026. A vulnerability was detected in pkp pkp-lib up to 3.3.0-22/3.4.0-10/3.5.0-4. The affected element is the function _transformPHP of the file classes/xslt/XSLTransformer.php. The manipulation results in xml external entity reference. The attack can be executed remotely. Upgrading to version 3.3.0-23,…
When was CVE-2026-76572 disclosed?
CVE-2026-76572 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 19, 2026, with the most recent update on August 20, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-76572 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-76572 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 73.4% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-76572?
CVE-2026-76572 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.7 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-76572?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-76572, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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