XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting phpoffice/phpexcel package, versions >=0.0.0
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- published7 Mar 2025
- disclosed18 Nov 2024
- creditAntonio-R1, Antonio Spataro
Introduced: 18 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-47873 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for phpoffice/phpexcel.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to the usage of improperly secured regular expressions in the scan and findCharSet methods of the XmlScanner class. By exploiting UCS-4 encoding and encoding guessing techniques, attackers can manipulate XML data processing to initiate unauthorized actions, such as sending HTTP requests to a specified server.