Cross-site scripting in PhpSpreadsheet - CVE-2024-45046

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Cross-site scripting in PhpSpreadsheet - CVE-2024-45046

Published: December 30, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU102065
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45046
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote user can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

PhpSpreadsheet
IBM API Connect

How to mitigate CVE-2024-45046

Install updates from vendor's website.

PhpSpreadsheet - update to 2.1.0
IBM API Connect - update to 10.0.9.0

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