diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 76aa66d3c..a8d6d3ef4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 # v1.7.0-beta.8
 ## mm/dd/2019
 
+1. [](#new)
+    * Added new `Security::sanitizeSVG()` function
+1. [](#improved)
+    * Several FlexObject loading improvements 
 1. [](#bugfix)
     * Regression: Fixed language fallback
+    * Regression: Allow SVG avatar images for users
     
 # v1.7.0-beta.7
 ## 08/30/2019
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 1030e5aa2..67214653e 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
         "dragonmantank/cron-expression": "^1.2",
         "phive/twig-extensions-deferred": "^1.0",
         "willdurand/negotiation": "^2.3",
-        "itsgoingd/clockwork": "~4.0"
+        "itsgoingd/clockwork": "~4.0",
+        "enshrined/svg-sanitize": "^0.10.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "codeception/codeception": "^2.4",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index ed0a3b1cd..c6537c0db 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "fe6ec382807a811a027202be339f8384",
+    "content-hash": "651a29a09418144e8b0d47bade1e807f",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "antoligy/dom-string-iterators",
@@ -346,6 +346,43 @@
             ],
             "time": "2017-01-23T04:29:33+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "enshrined/svg-sanitize",
+            "version": "0.10.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer.git",
+                "reference": "5344d8511e494adf160f71f4b34024d3a3c66c82"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/zipball/5344d8511e494adf160f71f4b34024d3a3c66c82",
+                "reference": "5344d8511e494adf160f71f4b34024d3a3c66c82",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "codeclimate/php-test-reporter": "^0.1.2",
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^6"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "enshrined\\svgSanitize\\": "src"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "GPL-2.0+"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Daryll Doyle",
+                    "email": "daryll@enshrined.co.uk"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "An SVG sanitizer for PHP",
+            "time": "2019-01-11T12:31:32+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "erusev/parsedown",
             "version": "1.6.4",
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Common/Security.php b/system/src/Grav/Common/Security.php
index 0f6109795..a58d5a1b5 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Common/Security.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Common/Security.php
@@ -9,11 +9,33 @@
 
 namespace Grav\Common;
 
+use enshrined\svgSanitize\Sanitizer;
 use Grav\Common\Page\Pages;
 
 class Security
 {
 
+    /**
+     * Sanitize SVG for XSS code
+     *
+     * @param $file
+     */
+    public static function sanitizeSVG($file)
+    {
+        $sanitizer = new Sanitizer();
+        $original_svg = file_get_contents($file);
+        $clean_svg = $sanitizer->sanitize($original_svg);
+        file_put_contents($file, $clean_svg);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Detect XSS code in Grav pages
+     *
+     * @param Pages $pages
+     * @param bool $route
+     * @param callable|null $status
+     * @return array
+     */
     public static function detectXssFromPages(Pages $pages, $route = true, callable $status = null)
     {
         $routes = $pages->routes();
@@ -51,7 +73,6 @@ class Security
                     } else {
                         $list[$page->filePathClean()] = $results;
                     }
-
                 }
 
             } catch (\Exception $e) {
@@ -63,6 +84,8 @@ class Security
     }
 
     /**
+     * Detect XSS in an array or strings such as $_POST or $_GET
+     *
      * @param array $array      Array such as $_POST or $_GET
      * @param string $prefix    Prefix for returned values.
      * @return array            Returns flatten list of potentially dangerous input values, such as 'data.content'.
@@ -89,6 +112,7 @@ class Security
 
     /**
      * Determine if string potentially has a XSS attack. This simple function does not catch all XSS and it is likely to
+     *
      * return false positives because of it tags all potentially dangerous HTML tags and attributes without looking into
      * their content.
      *