Medium

ZendFramework potential Cross-site Scripting vectors due to inconsistent encodings

  • Disclosed: 07.06.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

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.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package zendframework/zendframework1 >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.7 1.9.7

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Composer
Package
zendframework/zendframework1
Disclosed
07.06.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-hg35-vqp3-fv39 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: zendframework/zendframework1

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (34) in the archive
Total entries
34
First → latest
05.2022 06.2024
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 8
  • High 9
  • Medium 17

Disclosures per year

  1. 2022: 13
  2. 2023: 0
  3. 2024: 21
  4. 2025: 0
  5. 2026: 0
Severity:
  1. Critical · 9.8 ghsa-6fqw-j3vm-7f66 < 1.12.20 1.12.20
  2. High · 7.5 ghsa-848f-mph5-9pm9 >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.17 1.12.17
  3. High · 7.5 ghsa-8xhv-gqm4-3w99 >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.18 1.12.18
  4. Critical · 9.8 ghsa-v42g-7q2x-cw32 >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.16 1.12.16
  5. Critical · 9.8 ghsa-2x36-qhx3-7m5f >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.7 1.12.7
  6. High · 7.5 ghsa-9v78-h226-2rmq >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.4 1.12.4
  7. High · 8.6 ghsa-229x-22xc-2f2w >= 1.0.0, < 1.11.13 1.11.13
  8. High · 7.5 ghsa-2jx7-xg83-j2m7 >= 1.0.0, < 1.11.13 1.11.13
  9. Critical · 9.8 ghsa-mhpx-3rv8-wrjm >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.4 1.12.4
  10. High · 7.5 ghsa-4j9x-g4x8-vcmf >= 1.11.0, < 1.11.15, >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.1 1.11.15, 1.12.1
  11. ZendFramework potential Cross-site Scripting vectors due to inconsistent encodings this entry
    Medium · 6.1 ghsa-hg35-vqp3-fv39 >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.7 1.9.7
  12. Critical · 9.8 ghsa-qf36-fx9f-232x >= 1.10.0, < 1.10.9, >= 1.11.0, < 1.11.6 1.10.9, 1.11.6
  13. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2014-8089 >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.9 1.12.9
  14. High · 7.3 CVE-2012-3363 >= 1.0.0, < 1.11.12, >= 1.12.0-rc1, < 1.12.0 1.11.12, 1.12.0
  15. High · 7.8 CVE-2015-5723 >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.16 1.12.16
  16. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2015-7695 < 1.12.16 1.12.16
  17. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2016-6233 < 1.12.19 1.12.19

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