CVE-2026-76572CWE-610CWE-611xxe

CVE-2026-76572

Medium · published August 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability was detected in pkp pkp-lib up to 3.3.0-22/3.4.0-10/3.5.0-4. The affected element is the function _transformPHP of the file classes/xslt/XSLTransformer.php. The manipulation results in xml external entity reference. The attack can be executed remotely. Upgrading to version 3.3.0-23, 3.4.0-11 and 3.5.0-5 is sufficient to fix this issue. The patch is identified as 78c699370ea43ae2784e1c4ace7c947d207f2b47. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
5.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
EPSS
0.00454 · 38.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-610 · Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere; CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Published
2026-08-20T00:17Z
References (8)
https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/ · [email protected]https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/commit/78c699370ea43ae2784e1c4ace7c947d207f2b47 · [email protected]https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/12977 · [email protected]https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/releases/tag/3_5_0-5 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-76572 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/submit/878359 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/393037 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/393037/cti · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 19:30Z
    pkp pkp-lib XSLTransformer.php _transformPHP xml external entity reference
    cvelistv5