CVE-2026-46360: Thorsten Phpmyfaq

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

  • Thorsten Phpmyfaq: before 4.1.2 (fixed in 4.1.2)

Published 2026-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.