GHSA-w7gh-f2fm-9q8r

PEAR HTTP_Request2 vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-43717

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	pear/http_request2	< 2.7.0	2.7.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

In PEAR HTTP_Request2 before 2.7.0, multiple files in the tests directory, notably tests/_network/getparameters.php and tests/_network/postparameters.php, reflect any GET or POST parameters, leading to XSS.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43717 advisory
https://github.com/pear/HTTP_Request2/commit/07925aa77e441dba0ff0fa973a09802729cb838f web
https://github.com/pear/HTTP_Request2/commit/265e05f9e08a28a38a57219516a8e4e2dfdbb147 web
https://github.com/pear/HTTP_Request2 package
https://github.com/pear/HTTP_Request2/blob/b1c61b71128045734d757c4d3d436457ace80ea7/package.xml#L24 web
https://github.com/pear/HTTP_Request2/compare/v2.6.0...v2.7.0 web