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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-34974 EUVD-2026-18332GHSA-5crx-pfhq-4hgg

phpMyFAQ: SVG Sanitizer Bypass via HTML Entity Encoding leads to Stored XSS and Privilege Escalation

Published Apr 2, 2026 · Updated Apr 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Prior to version 4.1.1, the regex-based SVG sanitizer in phpMyFAQ (SvgSanitizer.php) can be bypassed using HTML entity encoding in javascript: URLs within SVG <a href> attributes. Any user with edit_faq permission can upload a malicious SVG that executes arbitrary JavaScript when viewed, enabling privilege escalation from editor to full admin takeover. This issue has been patched in version 4.1.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
thorsten phpMyFAQ < 4.1.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist thorsten/phpmyfaq < 4.1.1 4.1.1 GHSA-5crx-pfhq-4hgg

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