VulnerabilityDeferred
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.
MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 0.34%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 4.0
- 5.1 MEDIUMCVSS: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/M
- EPSS
- 0.34% probability · 27th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-610, CWE-611
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
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
- https://vuldb.com/submit/878359
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/393037
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/393037/cti
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.