GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9
Aliases
Published
2021-05-06T18:53:37Z
Modified
2025-03-06T18:23:04.777638Z
Severity
  • 6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Cross-site scripting in phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-09T21:12:55Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-12-09T17:15:00Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Packagist / phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

Package

Name
phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
Purl
pkg:composer/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16.0

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0-beta
1.0.0-beta2
1.0.0
1.1.0
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.3.0
1.3.1
1.4.0
1.4.1
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.6.0
1.7.0
1.8.0
1.8.1
1.8.2
1.9.0
1.10.0
1.10.1
1.11.0
1.12.0
1.13.0
1.14.0
1.14.1
1.15.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9.json"

Packagist / phpoffice/phpexcel

Package

Name
phpoffice/phpexcel
Purl
pkg:composer/phpoffice/phpexcel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
1.8.2

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.9-rc1
1.7.9
1.8.0rc1
1.8.0rc2
1.8.0rc3
1.8.0rc4
1.8.0
1.8.1
1.8.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9.json"