GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9MediumCVSS 6.4

Cross-site scripting in phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

Published
May 6, 2021
Last Modified
March 6, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

This affects the package phpoffice/phpspreadsheet. The library is vulnerable to XSS when creating an html output from an excel file by adding a comment on any cell. The root cause of this issue is within the HTML writer where user comments are concatenated as part of link and this is returned as HTML.

🎯 Affected products2

  • composer/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet:< 1.16.0
  • composer/phpoffice/phpexcel:<= 1.8.2

🔗 References (7)