CVE-2026-46360

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.

CVSS Vector

References

• https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-whqh-9pq5-c7r3
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-stored-xss-via-entity-decoding-depth-limit-bypass-in-svg-sanitizer
• https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-whqh-9pq5-c7r3