Vulnerability · Published Sep 19, 2026 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2026-93956olivier-ls PHP-FTS Search SearchEngine.php buildHighlights cross site scripting

Low 3.5

In plain English

A low-severity cross-site scripting in PHP-FTS from olivier-ls. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)3.5Low

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw has been found in olivier-ls PHP-FTS up to 1.1.2. Affected by this issue is the function SearchEngine::buildHighlights of the file src/SearchEngine.php of the component Search Engine. Executing a manipulation of the argument Query can lead to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.1.3 can resolve this issue. This patch is called 0b2fae333d6b022da7ed4c43e2d41aa03f91dff3. The affected component should be upgraded. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
olivier-ls	PHP-FTS	1.1.01.1.11.1.2

Weakness: CWE-79, CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

References

VDB-407915 | olivier-ls PHP-FTS Search SearchEngine.php buildHighlights cross site scripting vdb-entry, technical-description
VDB-407915 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) signature, permissions-required
CVE-2026-93956 | CVE Analysis and Report third-party-advisory
Submit #943922 | olivier-ls PHP-FTS 0.1 Cross-Site Scripting third-party-advisory
https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts/issues/1 issue-tracking
https://github.com/sumo166/CVE-apply/blob/main/olivier-ls/PHP-FTS/SearchEngine%20buildHighlights%20Stored%20XSS%20(CWE-79)_cve.md exploit
https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts/commit/0b2fae333d6b022da7ed4c43e2d41aa03f91dff3 patch
https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts/tags patch
https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts/ product