CVE-2026-46360
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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.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.1
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-05-15 19:17:03.263000
Last modified
2026-10-26 14:10:00.130000
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"published": "2026-05-15T19:17:03.263",
"lastModified": "2026-10-26T14:10:00.130",
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"source": "[email protected]",
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