MEDIUM 5.1 NVD
CVE-2026-76572
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/XSLTran
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.
References
- https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/
- https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/commit/78c699370ea43ae2784e1c4ace7c947d207f2b47
- https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/12977
- https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/releases/tag/3_5_0-5
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-76572
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.1 was published on 2026-08-19 via NVD.
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