CVE-2025-23210

Bypass XSS sanitizer using the javascript protocol and special characters in phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Feb 3, 2025
Updated: Feb 4, 2025
Reserved: Jan 13, 2025

Description

phpoffice/phpspreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Affected versions have been found to have a Bypass of the Cross-site Scripting (XSS) sanitizer using the javascript protocol and special characters. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.9.0, 2.3.7, 2.1.8, and 1.29.9. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PhpSpreadsheetPHPOffice	>= 3.0.0, < 3.9.0Affected >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.7Affected >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.8Affected < 1.29.9Affected

References

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