Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting elgg/elgg package, versions <7.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-ELGGELGG-18306761
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed22 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-65650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade elgg/elgg to version 7.0.0 or higher.

Overview

elgg/elgg is a development framework used for creating socially aware web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the avatar upload process. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion by uploading an image with excessively large dimensions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1