An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• php phpup to 5.6.32 inclusive
• php php7.0.0 and later · up to 7.0.26 inclusive
• php phpafter 7.1.0 · up to 7.1.12 inclusive
• php php7.2.0

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2024-4577Argument Injection in PHP-CGIKEV
  99Now
• CVE-2019-11043Underflow in PHP-FPM can lead to RCEKEV
  99Now
• CVE-2012-1823sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP before 5.3.12 and 5.4.x before 5.4.2, when configured as a CGI script (aka php-cgi), does not properly handle queKEV
  99Now
• CVE-2018-7584In PHP through 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.28, 7.1.x through 7.1.14, and 7.2.x through 7.2.2, there is a stack-based buffer under-read while pa
  65This week
• CVE-2018-19518University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imap_open() in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command (by means of
  59Plan
• CVE-2016-3078Multiple integer overflows in php_zip.c in the zip extension in PHP before 7.0.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-b
  56Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.