GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-wgmf-q9vr-vww6 PhpSpreadsheet HTML writer is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via style information
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-45046
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- phpoffice/phpspreadsheet, phpoffice/phpexcel
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2024-08-29
Affected packages
• Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet: >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0 → fixed in 2.1.0
• Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet: < 1.29.1 → fixed in 1.29.1
• Packagist phpoffice/phpexcel: <= 1.8.2 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
`\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Html` doesn't sanitize spreadsheet styling information such as font names, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript on the page.
PoC
Example target script:
```
load(__DIR__ . '/book.xlsx');
$writer = new \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Html($spreadsheet);
print($writer->generateHTMLAll());
```
Save this file in the same directory:
book.xlsx
Open index.php in a web browser. An alert should be displayed.
Impact
Full takeover of the session of users viewing spreadsheet files as HTML.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-45046 PHPSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-wgmf-q9vr-vww6 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45046 advisory
- https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/3957 web
- https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/f7cf378faed2e11cf4825bf8bafea4922ae44667 web
- https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet package