Description
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.
Published: 2026-08-19
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title pkp pkp-lib XSLTransformer.php _transformPHP xml external entity reference
First Time appeared Pkp
Pkp pkp-lib
Weaknesses CWE-610
CWE-611
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pkp:pkp-lib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Pkp
Pkp pkp-lib
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.1, 'vector': '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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-20T12:30:55.812Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T13:45:40.432Z

Link: CVE-2026-76572

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-20T12:30:44.612Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-19T20:17:23.627

Modified: 2026-08-20T13:19:05.860

Link: CVE-2026-76572

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-20T12:30:05Z

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