XML External Entity vulnerability detected.

Description

Avoid parsing untrusted data as XML. Such data could include URIs that resolve to resources that are outside of the current context, leading to XML External Entity (XXE) injection.

Remediations

❌ Do not enable parsing of external entities.

For LibXML, for example, do not set noent to true.

  var libxml = require("libxmljs");
libxml.parseXmlString(xml, { noent: true, noblanks: true });

Resources

Associated CWE

OWASP Top 10

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