Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.
How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
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Implementation, System Configuration
Many XML parsers and validators can be configured to disable external entity expansion.
Source: MITRE CWE-611
940 results · Feed
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Medium 5.9
svg_optimizer rubygem external XML entity (XXE) vulnerability
The svg_optimizer gem before 0.3.0 for Ruby performs entity expansion on untrusted documents.
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Medium 5.9
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity References in AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper RemoteQueryCachePlugin
Improper restriction of XML external entity references in the RemoteQueryCachePlugin in AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper 3.3.0 through 4.2.0 might allow an actor with write access to the shared cache infrastructure to disclose sensitive files from application hosts …
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High 7.5
MoguBlog through 6.2 XML External Entity Injection in the Unauthenticated WeChat Callback Endpoint
MoguBlog through 6.2 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in the WeChat callback handler at POST /wechat/wechatCheck. The WechatRestApi.index() method passes the raw request body to SignUtil.xmlToMap(), which uses an unhardened dom4j SAXRea…
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High 7.5
NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
When XML batch processing is turned on and the XPath option is selected, the raw batch input goes through a default XPath/JAXP setup with no entity restrictions, so XXE injection can allow data exfiltration and denial-of-service attacks.
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High 8.2
NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
The XSLT Transformer Step builds a bare TransformerFactory without the proper security options set, so XXE injection can allow data exfiltration and denial-of-service attacks.
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High 8.6
XML External Entity in Akana API Platform
A flaw resulting in XML external entity (XXE) was found in Akana API Platform in which references were improperly restricted during XML-to-JSON processing. The issue affects Akana versions 2026.1, 2025.1.1, and all versions before 2024.1.6 (including older un…
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Medium 6.9
Omada Controller XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in SAML IdP Metadata Parsing Leading to Arbitrary Local File Read
An information disclosure vulnerability in the SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality of Omada Controller allows an authenticated user with SAML configuration privileges to access sensitive information due to insufficient validation of user-supplied SAML met…
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Medium 5.9
OpenNMS XML collector XXE allows arbitrary file read from the OpenNMS host
An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the XML collector of multiple versions of OpenNMS Meridian and Horizon. When OpenNMS collects XML from a source whose response is attacker-controlled (for example a compromised monitored host or an HTTP man…
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Medium 5.3
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in CyberELF NanoXML
The API is prone to XML external entity (XXE) injection. By default, XML external entity support is enabled. This issue affects NanoXML: 2.2.3.
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High 7.4
XXE Vulnerability in Cosminexus Component Container
Improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability in Cosminexus Component Container. This issue affects Cosminexus Component Container: from 11-70-01 before 11-70-03, from 11-60 before 11-60-03, from 11-50 through 11-50-03, from 11-40 throug…
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High 8.5
XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in SAP Integration Suite
SAP Integration Suite does not sufficiently validate XML documents accepted from untrusted sources in certain internal components. An attacker with low privileges could submit specially crafted XML payloads containing malicious external entity declarations. S…
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High 7.5
An XXE (XML External Entity) vulnerability in the level-rule module of Distribution Management v1.0.0 allows attackers …
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Medium 5.3
IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS Adapter nodes are vulnerable to multiple CVEs
IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0.1.0 through 13.0.8.1, and 12.0.1.0 through 12.0.12.28 and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS 10.1.0.0 through 10.1.0.7 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) in…
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Medium 5.3
IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS Adapter nodes are vulnerable to multiple CVEs
IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0.1.0 through 13.0.8.1, and 12.0.1.0 through 12.0.12.28 and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS 10.1.0.0 through 10.1.0.7 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) in…
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High 7.7
IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS Adapter nodes are vulnerable to multiple CVEs
IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0.1.0 through 13.0.8.1, and 12.0.1.0 through 12.0.12.28 and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS 10.1.0.0 through 10.1.0.7 SAP Adapter is vulnerable to an XML external entity (XXE) attack.
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Medium 5.5
Exterro FTK Imager < 8.3 XXE via Report.xml XSLT Processing
Exterro FTK Imager before 8.3 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows attackers to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem by embedding malicious external entity references and attacker-controlled XSLT stylesheets withi…
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Medium 5.5
XG VisionTerminal, XG-X VisionTerminal, LJ Series Terminal-Software and WI Series Terminal-Software provided by Keyence…
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High 7.5
Resteasy-core: resteasy sourceprovider remote unauthenticated file read
A flaw was found in RESTEasy's SourceProvider. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform an unauthenticated remote file read. By sending a specially crafted XML body with a DOCTYPE declaration referencing external entities to an endpoin…
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High 7.5
YaCy Search Server through 1.941 XML External Entity Injection via Parsers
YaCy Search Server through 1.941 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in SVG, FreeMind, and OpenSearch parsers that fail to disable external entity resolution. Attackers can publish malicious documents with DOCTYPE declarations containing S…
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High 8.6
mapfish-print: XXE on MapFish Print allows reading arbitrary files of certain types
mapfish-print is a component of MapFish for printing templated cartographic maps. Prior to 3.28.30, 3.30.32, 3.31.24, 3.33.16, and 4.0.5, MapFish Print accepts an attacker-controlled GML layer url in requests to the /api/print3/print endpoint and fetches XML …
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Medium 4.7
pkp pkp-lib XSLTransformer.php _transformPHP xml external entity reference
A vulnerability was detected in pkp pkp-lib up to 3.3.0-22/3.4.0-10/3.5.0-4. The affected element is the function _transformPHP of the file classes/xslt/XSLTransformer.php. The manipulation results in xml external entity reference. The attack can be executed …
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High 7.5CVE-2026-20320 Exploited
A vulnerability in the Open Client Interface (OCI) XML Parser of Cisco BroadWorks could allow an unauthenticated, remot…
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Medium 6.5
Dell Command Update (DCU), versions prior to 5.7.1, contain an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vu…
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Medium 6.5
Dell OpenManage Enterprise, versions prior to 4.7.0, contains an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference …
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Medium 5.5
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2.1 xXE was possible in the Eclipse settings importers
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Medium 5.5
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2.1 hadoop ResourceManager could read local files via XXE
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High 7.7
Datavane TIS v5.0.0 XXE Injection via doEditWorkflow Endpoint
Datavane TIS v5.0.0 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to perform server-side request forgery and out-of-band file exfiltration by supplying a crafted taskScript payload to the doEditWorkflow endp…
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Medium 6.5
IBM i is Affected By Multiple Vulnerabilities in WebSphere Application Server Liberty
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper processing of XML external entities.
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High 8.7
In Eclipse RDF4J, several XML parser entry points do not fully restrict XML External Entity (XXE) processing when parsi…
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Medium 6.3
XXE in Ministry of Justice's UYAP Document Editor
Improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability in Ministry of Justice UYAP Document Editor allows Serialized Data External Linking. This issue affects UYAP Document Editor: from 4.5.17 before 5.4.17.
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Medium 6.1
FreeCAD: XXE file read and SSRF via external entity injection in Document.xml SAX parser
FreeCAD is a free and open-source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Prior to 1.1.2, the Xerces SAX2 XMLReader constructed in src/Base/Reader.cpp by Base::XMLReader::XMLReader() parses attacker-controlled Document.xml from a crafted .FCStd archive without d…
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Medium 6.5
XML External Entity Injection in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence) allows a low-privileged attacker to upload a specially crafted spreadsheet file containing malicious external references. When the file is processed as a data source, the affected component…
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Critical 9.3
JasperReports Server: XXE Injection Vulnerability (Unauthenticated)
Improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability (unauthenticated) in Jaspersoft JasperReports Server. This issue affects JasperReports Server: from 9.0.0 before HF-9 and from 10.0.0 before HF-10.
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High 7.5
Apache CXF: XXE via WSDL/XSD import parsing
Apache CXF reads a top-level WSDL through its hardened StaxUtils path, which disables XML DTDs and external entities. However, any <wsdl:import> or <xsd:import> referenced from that top-level WSDL is handed off to WSDL4J, which does not disable DOCTYPE declar…
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High 7.1
Jenkins Ivy Report Plugin 1.2 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attack…
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High 8.2
IBM QRadar SIEM has an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability
IBM QRadar 7.6.0.0 through 7.6.0.1, and 7.5.0 through 7.5.0 UP 15 Interim Fix 005 has an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability. The vulnerability resides in the parseXmlPayload() function within the event processing pipeline ( q1labs_core.jar ). W…
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Medium 4.6
In Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) versions up to 1.6.0 (including source code versions up to v20260630 an…
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Medium 5.5
IBM DataPower Gateway affected by XML external entity injection
IBM DataPower Gateway is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.
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High 7.5
CentreStack < 17.4 XXE via SharePoint Storage Configuration
CentreStack before 17.4 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate arbitrary files by supplying a malicious URL to the SharePoint storage configuration handler. Attackers can send a crafte…
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Medium 6.5
veraPDF-validatio: Use of Default `DocumentBuilderFactory` leads to XXE When Processing Untrusted PDFs
veraPDF validation model is an implementation of the veraPDF validation model. From 1.25.73 until 1.30.2 and 1.31.71, veraPDF-validation contains an XML External Entity vulnerability in PDFAValidator.validate(...) and GFPDAcroForm.getdynamicRender(), where de…