CVE-2025-54370: PhpSpreadsheet vulnerable to SSRF when reading and displaying a processed HTML document in the browser
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Product: PhpSpreadsheet
Version: 3.8.0
CWE-ID: CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVSS vector v.3.1: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVSS vector v.4.0: 8.7 (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N)
Description: SSRF occurs when a processed HTML document is read and displayed in the browser
Impact: Server-Side Request Forgery
Vulnerable component: the PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Worksheet\Drawing class, setPath method
Exploitation conditions: getting a string from the user that is passed to the HTML reader
Mitigation: improved processing of the $path variable of the setPath method of the PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Worksheet\Drawing class is needed
Researcher: Aleksey Solovev (Positive Technologies)
References
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/334a67797ace574d1d37c0992ffe283b7415471a
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/4050f14521d70634c3320b170236574a6106eb39
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/81a0de2261f698404587a6421a5c6eb263c40b31
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/ac4befd2f7ccc21a59daef606a02a3d1828ade09
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/c2cd0e64392438e4c6af082796eb65c1d629a266
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-rx7m-68vc-ppxh
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-rx7m-68vc-ppxh
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54370
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