PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet up to 1.29.7/2.1.6/2.3.5 generateNavigation cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet up to 1.29.7/2.1.6/2.3.5. Affected by this issue is the function generateNavigation. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-22131. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet up to 1.29.7/2.1.6/2.3.5. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function generateNavigation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-22131 since 12/30/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is shared for download at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 1.29.8, 2.1.7, 2.3.6 or 3.8.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• PHPOffice

Name

• PhpSpreadsheet

Version

• 1.29.0
• 1.29.1
• 1.29.2
• 1.29.3
• 1.29.4
• 1.29.5
• 1.29.6
• 1.29.7
• 2.1.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.4
• 2.1.5
• 2.1.6
• 2.3.0
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5

Website

• Product: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/

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