PT-2026-41362 · Thorsten · Phpmyfaq

Offset · Published 2026-05-15 · Updated 2026-05-15 · CVE-2026-46360

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-46360

Affected Products

Phpmyfaq

References · 3

• 🔥 https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-whqh-9pq5-c7r3 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46360 · Security Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-stored-xss-via-entity-decoding-depth-limit-bypass-in-svg-sanitizer · Note