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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.","status":"published","published":"2025-01-20T15:31:19.693Z","modified":"2025-01-21T14:58:15.541Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"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","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:28.943062Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-0143","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.","status":"published","published":"2025-01-20T15:31:19Z","modified":"2025-01-21T14:58:15Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"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","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T00:04:16.173755Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx","title":"Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function in PhpSpreadsheet","description":"### Summary\nThe researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.\n\n### Details\nWhen generating the HTML from an xlsx file containing multiple sheets, a navigation menu is created. This menu includes the sheet names, which are not sanitized. As a result, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute JavaScript code.\n\n```php\n        // Construct HTML\n        $html = '';\n\n        // Only if there are more than 1 sheets\n        if (count($sheets) \u003e 1) {\n            // Loop all sheets\n            $sheetId = 0;\n\n            $html .= '\u003cul class=\"navigation\"\u003e' . PHP_EOL;\n\n            foreach ($sheets as $sheet) {\n                $html .= '  \u003cli class=\"sheet' . $sheetId . '\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#sheet' . $sheetId . '\"\u003e' . $sheet-\u003egetTitle() . '\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e' . PHP_EOL;\n                ++$sheetId;\n            }\n\n            $html .= '\u003c/ul\u003e' . PHP_EOL;\n        }\n```\n\n### PoC\n1. Create an XLSX file with multiple sheets : \n![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e3fc027a-9525-4d7f-b107-cfa6e78d04e7)\n\n2. Generate the HTML content \n```php\n\u003c?php\n\trequire __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';\n\n\t$inputFileName = 'payload.xlsx';\n\t$spreadsheet = \\PhpOffice\\PhpSpreadsheet\\IOFactory::load($inputFileName);\n\t$writer = new \\PhpOffice\\PhpSpreadsheet\\Writer\\Html($spreadsheet);\n\t$writer-\u003ewriteAllSheets();\n\techo $writer-\u003egenerateHTMLAll();\n?\u003e\n```\n3. Enjoy\n![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e3c24f4-cb5d-451d-978f-9d33234f3bd1)\n\n\n### Impact\n\nXSS can cause a variety of problems for the end user that range in severity from an annoyance to complete account compromise.\nExample of impacts :\n\n- Disclosure of the user’s session cookie, allowing an attacker to hijack the user’s session and take over the account (Only if HttpOnly cookie's flag is set to false).\n- Redirecting the user to some other page or site (like phishing websites)\n- Modifying the content of the current page (add a fake login page that sends credentials to the attacker).\n- Automatically download malicious files.\n- Requests access to the victim geolocation / camera.\n- ...","status":"published","published":"2025-01-21T21:09:13Z","modified":"2025-03-06T18:16:09Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"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","level":"medium"},{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:38:34.185137Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-22131","description":"PhpSpreadsheet is a PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. 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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.","status":"published","published":"2025-01-20T15:31:19.693Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:05.337100524Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"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","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:47.009967Z"},{"id":"GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx","title":"Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function in PhpSpreadsheet","description":"### Summary\nThe researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code which translates the XLSX file into a HTML representation and displays it in the response.\n\n### Details\nWhen generating the HTML from an xlsx file containing multiple sheets, a navigation menu is created. This menu includes the sheet names, which are not sanitized. As a result, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute JavaScript code.\n\n```php\n        // Construct HTML\n        $html = '';\n\n        // Only if there are more than 1 sheets\n        if (count($sheets) \u003e 1) {\n            // Loop all sheets\n            $sheetId = 0;\n\n            $html .= '\u003cul class=\"navigation\"\u003e' . PHP_EOL;\n\n            foreach ($sheets as $sheet) {\n                $html .= '  \u003cli class=\"sheet' . $sheetId . '\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#sheet' . $sheetId . '\"\u003e' . $sheet-\u003egetTitle() . '\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e' . PHP_EOL;\n                ++$sheetId;\n            }\n\n            $html .= '\u003c/ul\u003e' . PHP_EOL;\n        }\n```\n\n### PoC\n1. Create an XLSX file with multiple sheets : \n![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e3fc027a-9525-4d7f-b107-cfa6e78d04e7)\n\n2. Generate the HTML content \n```php\n\u003c?php\n\trequire __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';\n\n\t$inputFileName = 'payload.xlsx';\n\t$spreadsheet = \\PhpOffice\\PhpSpreadsheet\\IOFactory::load($inputFileName);\n\t$writer = new \\PhpOffice\\PhpSpreadsheet\\Writer\\Html($spreadsheet);\n\t$writer-\u003ewriteAllSheets();\n\techo $writer-\u003egenerateHTMLAll();\n?\u003e\n```\n3. Enjoy\n![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e3c24f4-cb5d-451d-978f-9d33234f3bd1)\n\n\n### Impact\n\nXSS can cause a variety of problems for the end user that range in severity from an annoyance to complete account compromise.\nExample of impacts :\n\n- Disclosure of the user’s session cookie, allowing an attacker to hijack the user’s session and take over the account (Only if HttpOnly cookie's flag is set to false).\n- Redirecting the user to some other page or site (like phishing websites)\n- Modifying the content of the current page (add a fake login page that sends credentials to the attacker).\n- Automatically download malicious files.\n- Requests access to the victim geolocation / camera.\n- ...","status":"published","published":"2025-01-21T21:09:13Z","modified":"2025-03-06T18:37:31.054095Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"},{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"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","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:41.002603Z"}]}}