🛡️ CVE-2024-45046
🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

PHPSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. In affected versions `\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Html` doesn't sanitize spreadsheet styling information such as font names, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript on the page. As a result an attacker may used a crafted spreadsheet to fully takeover a session of a user viewing spreadsheet files as HTML. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.1.0. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-29
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-03-06

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpoffice/phpexcel
phpoffice/phpspreadsheet 1.29.1
phpspreadsheet 2.0.0 2.1.0

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