[GHSA-8gc5-j5rx-235r] fast-xml-parser affected by numeric entity expansion bypassing all entity expansion limits (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-26278)

[yuezk]

Updates

• Affected products
• References

Comments
The issue has been fixed on 4.x release, update the affected version accordingly.

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Pull request overview

Updates the GHSA advisory for fast-xml-parser to reflect that the issue is fixed in the 4.x release line as well, and adds supporting references.

Changes:

• Adjusted the affected version range for the 5.x line to start at 5.0.0
• Added a separate affected range for the 4.x line with fix version 4.5.5
• Added additional upstream references (issue + release link)

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