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Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

CVE-2020-25750

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in DotPlant2 before 2020-09-14. In class Pay2PayPayment in payment/Pay2PayPayment.php, there is an XXE vulnerability in the checkResult function. The user input ($_POST['xml']) is used for simplexml_load_string without sanitization. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Listed 4th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', XML External Entities (XXE) vulnerability allows attackers to provide an XML input that contains an external entity. When the XML is parsed, it can cause data extraction and manipulation, execution of commands, denial-of-service attacks, and server-side request forgery.

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