CVE-2025-22131: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in generateNavigation() function in PhpSpreadsheet

January 21, 2025 (updated March 6, 2025)

The 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.

References

github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet
github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/4088381ccfaf241d7d42c333de0dc8c98e338743
github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx
github.com/advisories/GHSA-79xx-vf93-p7cx
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22131

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