Vulnerabilites related to PHPOffice - Math
CVE-2025-48882 (GCVE-0-2025-48882)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-30 19:43
Modified
2025-05-30 20:46
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
PHPOffice Math is a library that provides a set of classes to manipulate different formula file formats. Prior to version 0.3.0, loading XML data using the standard `libxml` extension and the `LIBXML_DTDLOAD` flag without additional filtration, leads to XXE. Version 0.3.0 fixes the vulnerability.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PHPOffice Math Version: < 0.3.0
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