Vulnerability · Published Jan 20, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-22131Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function

Medium 5.1

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in PhpSpreadsheet from PHPOffice. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

PhpSpreadsheet is a PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Packagistphpoffice/phpexcelno fix listedGHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx
Packagistphpoffice/phpspreadsheet3.8.0GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx
Packagistphpoffice/phpspreadsheet1.29.8GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx
Packagistphpoffice/phpspreadsheet2.1.7GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx
Packagistphpoffice/phpspreadsheet2.3.6GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet >= 3.0.0, < 3.8.0>= 2.2.0, < 2.3.6>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.7< 1.29.8

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

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