ZendFramework potential Cross-site Scripting vectors due to inconsistent encodings
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
A number of classes, primarily within the `Zend_Form`, `Zend_Filter`, `Zend_Form`, `Zend_Log` and `Zend_View components`, contained character encoding inconsistencies whereby calls to the `htmlspecialchars()` and htmlentities() functions used undefined or hard coded charset parameters. In many of these cases developers were unable to set a character encoding of their choice. These inconsistencies could, in specific circumstances, allow certain multibyte representations of special HTML characters pass through unescaped leaving applications potentially vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) exploits. Such exploits would only be possible if a developer used a non-typical character encoding (such as UTF-7), allowed users to define the character encoding, or served HTML documents without a valid character set defined.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | zendframework/zendframework1 (Packagist) | 1.9.0 to before 1.9.7 | 1.9.7 | Patch available | GHSA-hg35-vqp3-fv39 |
- zendframework/zendframework1 (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 1.9.0 to before 1.9.7 Fixed in 1.9.7 Patch available GHSA-hg35-vqp3-fv39
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-hg35-vqp3-fv39 zendframework/zendframework1 (Packagist) Fixed in 1.9.7 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-hg35-vqp3-fv39
References
Sources
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