diff --git a/app/controllers/api/avatars.php b/app/controllers/api/avatars.php
index 3a7b4aa582..1d50d2c899 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/avatars.php
+++ b/app/controllers/api/avatars.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use Appwrite\URL\URL as URLParse;
 use Appwrite\Utopia\Response;
 use chillerlan\QRCode\QRCode;
 use chillerlan\QRCode\QROptions;
+use enshrined\svgSanitize\Sanitizer as SvgSanitizer;
 use Utopia\App;
 use Utopia\Config\Config;
 use Utopia\Database\Database;
@@ -362,7 +363,8 @@ App::get('/v1/avatars/favicon')
         $client = new Client();
         try {
             $res = $client
-                ->setAllowRedirects(false)
+                ->setAllowRedirects(true)
+                ->setMaxRedirects(5)
                 ->setUserAgent(\sprintf(
                     APP_USERAGENT,
                     System::getEnv('_APP_VERSION', 'UNKNOWN'),
@@ -399,6 +401,12 @@ App::get('/v1/avatars/favicon')
                     $ext = \pathinfo(\parse_url($absolute, PHP_URL_PATH), PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
 
                     switch ($ext) {
+                        case 'svg':
+                            // SVG icons are prioritized by assigning the maximum possible value.
+                            $space = PHP_INT_MAX;
+                            $outputHref = $absolute;
+                            $outputExt = $ext;
+                            break;
                         case 'ico':
                         case 'png':
                         case 'jpg':
@@ -437,7 +445,8 @@ App::get('/v1/avatars/favicon')
         $client = new Client();
         try {
             $res = $client
-                ->setAllowRedirects(false)
+                ->setAllowRedirects(true)
+                ->setMaxRedirects(5)
                 ->fetch($outputHref);
         } catch (\Throwable) {
             throw new Exception(Exception::AVATAR_REMOTE_URL_FAILED);
@@ -449,14 +458,33 @@ App::get('/v1/avatars/favicon')
 
         $data = $res->getBody();
 
-        if ('ico' == $outputExt) { // Skip crop, Imagick isn\'t supporting icon files
-            if (empty($data) || (\mb_substr($data, 0, 5) === '<html') || \mb_substr($data, 0, 5) === '<!doc') {
+        if ('ico' === $outputExt) { // Skip crop, Imagick isn\'t supporting icon files
+            if (
+                empty($data) ||
+                stripos($data, '<html') === 0 ||
+                stripos($data, '<!doc') === 0
+            ) {
                 throw new Exception(Exception::AVATAR_ICON_NOT_FOUND, 'Favicon not found');
             }
             $response
                 ->addHeader('Cache-Control', 'private, max-age=2592000') // 30 days
                 ->setContentType('image/x-icon')
                 ->file($data);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if ('svg' === $outputExt) { // Skip crop, Imagick isn\'t supporting svg files
+            $sanitizer = new SvgSanitizer();
+            $sanitizer->minify(true);
+            $cleanSvg = $sanitizer->sanitize($data);
+            if ($cleanSvg === false) {
+                throw new \Exception('SVG sanitization failed');
+            }
+            $response
+                ->addHeader('Cache-Control', 'private, max-age=2592000') // 30 days
+                ->setContentType('image/svg+xml')
+                ->file($cleanSvg);
+            return;
         }
 
         $image = new Image($data);
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 31a31af9f2..73cdcc3d86 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@
         "adhocore/jwt": "1.1.*",
         "spomky-labs/otphp": "^10.0",
         "webonyx/graphql-php": "14.11.*",
-        "league/csv": "9.14.*"
+        "league/csv": "9.14.*",
+        "enshrined/svg-sanitize": "0.21.*"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "ext-fileinfo": "*",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 9ff91c61b7..aafe1d216c 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": "edbe5912c45e1f467f398541a75a77de",
+    "content-hash": "7b2ef6192403daf5c492219822ce0aa1",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "adhocore/jwt",
@@ -628,6 +628,51 @@
             ],
             "time": "2023-08-10T19:36:49+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "enshrined/svg-sanitize",
+            "version": "0.21.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer.git",
+                "reference": "5e477468fac5c5ce933dce53af3e8e4e58dcccc9"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/zipball/5e477468fac5c5ce933dce53af3e8e4e58dcccc9",
+                "reference": "5e477468fac5c5ce933dce53af3e8e4e58dcccc9",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-dom": "*",
+                "ext-libxml": "*",
+                "php": "^7.1 || ^8.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^6.5 || ^8.5"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "enshrined\\svgSanitize\\": "src"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "GPL-2.0-or-later"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Daryll Doyle",
+                    "email": "daryll@enshrined.co.uk"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "An SVG sanitizer for PHP",
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/tree/0.21.0"
+            },
+            "time": "2025-01-13T09:32:25+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php-lite",
             "version": "8.13.36",
diff --git a/tests/e2e/Services/Avatars/AvatarsBase.php b/tests/e2e/Services/Avatars/AvatarsBase.php
index ba66920ed6..6d34418438 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/Services/Avatars/AvatarsBase.php
+++ b/tests/e2e/Services/Avatars/AvatarsBase.php
@@ -284,7 +284,17 @@ trait AvatarsBase
         ]);
 
         $this->assertEquals(200, $response['headers']['status-code']);
-        $this->assertEquals('image/x-icon', $response['headers']['content-type']);
+        $this->assertEquals('image/svg+xml', $response['headers']['content-type']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($response['body']);
+
+        $response = $this->client->call(Client::METHOD_GET, '/avatars/favicon', [
+            'x-appwrite-project' => $this->getProject()['$id'],
+        ], [
+            'url' => 'https://appwrite.io/',
+        ]);
+
+        $this->assertEquals(200, $response['headers']['status-code']);
+        $this->assertEquals('image/svg+xml', $response['headers']['content-type']);
         $this->assertNotEmpty($response['body']);
 
         /**