CVE-2026-56736: phpMyFAQ has Stored XSS in Admin FAQ Editor via HTML Entity Bypass in Frontend FAQ Submission
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyFAQ allows any unauthenticated user (or low-privileged registered user) to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator’s browser when they review or edit a user-submitted FAQ entry. This leads to admin account takeover via session theft. The vulnerability exists because html_entity_decode() converts HTML entities into executable HTML after strip_tags() has already passed them through, and the admin template renders the content with Twig’s |raw filter without any output sanitization.
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