PhpSpreadsheet: XmlScanner Bypass via Double-Encoded unentity() TOCTOU Allows XXE and Denial of Service

Summary The SpreadsheetML XML reader Reader\Xml scans file content twice through XmlScanner::scan, and each scan runs an unentity callback that calls htmlentitydecode after the pattern check. By double-encoding the toUtf8$xml; if pregmatch$pattern, $xml // CHECK 2 UTF-8 throw new Exception'Detect...

GHSA-RXJ4-H86G-25GC PhpSpreadsheet: XmlScanner Bypass via Double-Encoded unentity() TOCTOU Allows XXE and Denial of Service

Summary The SpreadsheetML XML reader Reader\Xml scans file content twice through XmlScanner::scan, and each scan runs an unentity callback that calls htmlentitydecode after the pattern check. By double-encoding the toUtf8$xml; if pregmatch$pattern, $xml // CHECK 2 UTF-8 throw new Exception'Detect...

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

Overview phpoffice/phpspreadsheet is a Spreadsheet engine that Read, Create and Write Spreadsheet documents in PHP . Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity XXE Injection via the unentity method in src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Xml.php, where HTML entities in XML...

CVE-2026-108357 PhpSpreadsheet: XmlScanner Bypass via Double-Encoded unentity() TOCTOU Allows XXE and Denial of Service

PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. From 3.3.0 until 3.10.8 and 5.10.0, Reader\Xml passes stored SpreadsheetML XML through XmlScanner::scan in Xml::canRead and Xml::trySimpleXMLLoadStringPrivate, while Xml::unentity decodes numeric entities only after...