GHSA-wj3q-vw2v-3rj3MediumCVSS 5.4

phpMyFAQ: SVG Sanitizer Entity Decoding Depth Limit Bypass Leading to Stored XSS

Published
May 15, 2026
Last Modified
May 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • composer/phpMyFAQ/phpMyFAQ:< 4.1.2
  • composer/thorsten/phpMyFAQ:< 4.1.2

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