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SCA: security update for thorsten/phpmyfaq (GHSA-5crx-pfhq-4hgg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 439615

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2026-34974)

Solution

Update the thorsten/phpmyfaq library and its related packages to version 4.1.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5crx-pfhq-4hgg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 439615

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.42

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34974

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34974

cwe: CWE-79