Sanitizer bypass in svg-sanitizer

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2019-10772 · GHSA-8rc5-hx3v-2jg7 · SNYK-PHP-ENSHRINEDSVGSANITIZE-536969 · Published 11/12/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-10772 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting enshrined/svg-sanitize, svg-sanitizer (svg-sanitizer project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.74%, higher than 54.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.13.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
enshrined/svg-sanitize Packagist	`< 0.13.1`	`0.13.1`
svg-sanitizer svg-sanitizer_project	`< 0.13.1`	`0.13.1`

Description

It is possible to bypass enshrined/svg-sanitize before 0.13.1 using the "xlink:href" attribute due to mishandling of the xlink namespace by the sanitizer.

NVD description

It is possible to bypass enshrined/svg-sanitize before 0.13.1 using the "xlink:href" attribute due to mishandling of the xlink namespace by the sanitizer.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10772 · ADVISORY
darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer commit 6add43e · WEB
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PHP-ENSHRINEDSVGSANITIZE-536969 · WEB

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

enshrined/svg-sanitize

Packagist

< 0.13.1

0.13.1

svg-sanitizer

svg-sanitizer_project

< 0.13.1

0.13.1

Description

It is possible to bypass enshrined/svg-sanitize before 0.13.1 using the "xlink:href" attribute due to mishandling of the xlink namespace by the sanitizer.

NVD description

It is possible to bypass enshrined/svg-sanitize before 0.13.1 using the "xlink:href" attribute due to mishandling of the xlink namespace by the sanitizer.

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