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Vulnerability record · CVE-2018-19277 · published 14 November 2018

CVE-2018-19277: Phpoffice phpspreadsheet xml injection vulnerability

Phpoffice · Phpspreadsheet

securityScan() in PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet through 1.5.0 allows a bypass of protection mechanisms for XXE via UTF-7 encoding in a .xlsx file

8.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 7.8% · top 5.5% CWE-91 · XML injection
8.8CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 6.8
7.8%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

securityScan() in PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet through 1.5.0 allows a bypass of protection mechanisms for XXE via UTF-7 encoding in a .xlsx file

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/MewesK/TwigSpreadsheetBundle/issues/18 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/issues/771 ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/11/phpoffice-versions/ Broken Link
https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2021-043 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/MewesK/TwigSpreadsheetBundle/issues/18 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/issues/771 ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/11/phpoffice-versions/ Broken Link
https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2021-043 Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2018-19277), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.