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/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 19 Aug 2026, 20:17 UTC Last modified 19 Aug 2026, 20:17 UTC

5.1

CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM base score

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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack profile

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Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required High

User interaction None

Scope Not assessed

Confidentiality Not assessed

Integrity Not assessed

Availability Not assessed

Affected products

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Weakness classification

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CWECWE-610 CWECWE-611

Source references

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NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 02 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 03 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 04 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 05 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 06 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 07 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 08 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com