CVE-2025-22131 (GCVE-0-2025-22131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-20 15:31 – Updated: 2025-01-21 14:58
VLAI
Title
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function
Summary
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.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-21 14:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet Affected: >= 3.0.0, < 3.8.0
Affected: >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.6
Affected: >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.7
Affected: < 1.29.8
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